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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

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

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

Mohammed

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Butterworth, Eric

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Petworth, John

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American