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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Porter, Irene

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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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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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Constant change is here to stay.

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von