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

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tracy, Brian

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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.

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

Naisbitt, John

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Tilden, Bill

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.