Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Jackson, Nelson

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Walesa, Lech

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Davis, William B.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Naisbitt, John

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hooker, Richard

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles 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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.