Motivational Quotes

Change

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

- Marcinko, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

34.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.