Motivational Quotes

Change

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

- Otto, Herbert A.

Best Quotes about Change

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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 longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Naisbitt, John

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

33.

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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 not reform, any more than noise is music.