Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Walesa, Lech

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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?

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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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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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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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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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Rogers, Will

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Paul, Jean

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Spander, Art

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Constant change is here to stay.

28.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Bible

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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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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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Rowan, Carl

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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 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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lynn Hall

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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