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

Bible

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Naisbitt, John

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.

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

10.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

11.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

12.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

13.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Burke, Edmund

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

19.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

21.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

25.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Gerhart, Susan

27.

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

A Course In Miracles

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

30.

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

31.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

32.

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

George, David Lloyd

33.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

34.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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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

43.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

44.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

45.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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