Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Jackson, Nelson

Best Quotes about Change

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Ruskin, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Murdock, Mike

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Confucius

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

A Course In Miracles

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Eliot, George

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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?

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.