Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Einstein, Albert

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

10.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

12.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

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

Klee, Paul

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

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

Shelton, Richard

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

19.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

20.

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

21.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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.

24.

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

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Eliot, George

31.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

32.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

34.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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

Virgil

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.