Motivational Quotes

Change

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

- Mcginley, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Constant change is here to stay.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene