Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

Paz, Octavio

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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 way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

Heraclitus

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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

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Constant change is here to stay.

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan