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

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Burke, Edmund

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Paul, Jean

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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

11.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Angelou, Maya

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Felltham, Owen

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Confucius

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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

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