Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Dante Alighieri

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

A Course In Miracles

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

22.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.