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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

A Course In Miracles

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Confucius