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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

Spander, Art

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Einstein, Albert

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Davis, William B.

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Menander of Athens

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Walesa, Lech

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tilden, Bill