Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heraclitus

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Eliot, George

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Kearney

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

Pope, Alexander

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Porter, Irene

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

Waitley, Denis

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Virgil

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Shelton, Richard

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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?

39.

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

40.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.