Motivational Quotes

Change

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Change

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Spander, Art

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

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

Socrates

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

Naisbitt, John

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.

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.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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.

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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.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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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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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Carol Burnett

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood