Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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?

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Lynn Hall

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Confucius

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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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

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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