Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change, we do.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

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

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Burke, Edmund

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Confucius

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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

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Petworth, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ruskin, John

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