Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Change

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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.

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.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

12.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Murdock, Mike

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shelton, Richard

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Petworth, John

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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 only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Tracy, Brian

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Tilden, Bill

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius