Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

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

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Angelou, Maya

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Christina Baldwin

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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