Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, William B.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Susan Rice

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

10.

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

11.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Heraclitus

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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

17.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

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

Bryant, William C.

19.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

20.

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

Nelson Mandela

21.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Confucius

24.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

25.

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

26.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

27.

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

Virgil

28.

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

29.

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

34.

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

35.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

36.

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

Mcgovern, William

37.

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

Tracy, Brian

38.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

39.

Constant change is here to stay.

40.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

41.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

42.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

44.

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

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

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

Lynn Hall

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