Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Lynn Hall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Walesa, Lech

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

12.

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

13.

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

Dante Alighieri

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

18.

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

19.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Herford, Oliver

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

34.

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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.