Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gerhart, Susan

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.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Udall, Mo

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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.

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Confucius

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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

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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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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ruskin, John

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

Murdock, Mike

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat