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

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

Udall, Mo

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

Spander, Art

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carol Burnett

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

11.

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?

12.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shelton, Richard

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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

21.

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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Naisbitt, John

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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 inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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