Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gilcrest, Peter

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Naisbitt, John

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Kearney

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Einstein, Albert

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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 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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Udall, Mo

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Davis, William B.

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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.

33.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Lynn Hall

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

Hooker, Richard

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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.