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

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Tracy, Brian

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus