Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Angelou, Maya

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.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

10.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

11.

Constant change is here to stay.

12.

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.

13.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter 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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

40.

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

41.

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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tilden, Bill

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Klee, Paul