Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Change

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Butterworth, Eric

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bacon, Francis

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Murdock, Mike

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Naisbitt, John

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol