Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Confucius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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