Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

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 is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Andy Warhol

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Naisbitt, John

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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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.