Motivational Quotes

Change

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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

Jackson, Nelson

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Petworth, John

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Murdock, Mike

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Virgil

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

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Kearney

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.