Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Real Live Preacher

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.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gilcrest, Peter

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Confucius

10.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

12.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

13.

Constant change is here to stay.

14.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Watts, Alan W.

31.

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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Porter, Irene

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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 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

48.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas