Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Klee, Paul

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

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

Kearney

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

10.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

12.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

13.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

14.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Petworth, John

17.

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

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

Ward, William A.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

23.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

24.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

25.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

26.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

27.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

Tilden, Bill

30.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

31.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

32.

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

Christina Baldwin

33.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

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

35.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

37.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

38.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

44.

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

Robbins, Anthony

45.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.