Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Bellin, Gita

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

George, David Lloyd

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Burke, Edmund

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Christina Baldwin

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Confucius

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Butterworth, Eric