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

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Andy Warhol

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Hooker, Richard

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Heraclitus

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

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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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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Confucius

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Eliot, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Porter, Irene

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Shelton, Richard

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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