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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Udall, Mo

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Shaw, P.K.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Confucius

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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 your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Paz, Octavio

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Hooker, Richard

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Drucker, Peter F.