Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Klee, Paul

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Brown, Les

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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