Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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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?

16.

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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

22.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Tilden, Bill

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Porter, Irene

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Confucius

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa