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

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Porter, Irene

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

20.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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 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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

32.

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

33.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

34.

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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

38.

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

39.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

40.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Davis, William B.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Ramsay Clark

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les