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 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

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

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Spencer, Herbert

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

George, David Lloyd

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Tilden, Bill

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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