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

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Christina Baldwin

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Udall, Mo

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Porter, Irene

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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'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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

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

Petworth, John

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

48.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Paz, Octavio