Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Andy Warhol

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bible

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Lynn Hall

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.