Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Walesa, Lech

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Udall, Mo

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

Watts, Alan W.