Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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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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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Depree, Max

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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 search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Socrates

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von