Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about 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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Lynn Hall

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Naisbitt, John

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

11.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Ward, William A.

18.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

25.

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

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

Bible

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Burke, Edmund

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Proust, Marcel

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel