Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

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

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Heraclitus

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Udall, Mo

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Confucius

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus