Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Brown, Les

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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 only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Angelou, Maya

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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