Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Virgil

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.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Brown, Les

10.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

12.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

13.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

14.

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

Udall, Mo

15.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

16.

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.

17.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

18.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

19.

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.

20.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

21.

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

22.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

23.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

24.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

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

Hooker, Richard

26.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

29.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

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

31.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

32.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

33.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

34.

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

35.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

36.

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

37.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

38.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Spander, Art

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Ramsay Clark

44.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

45.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

46.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

47.

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

Ruskin, John

48.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

49.

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

50.

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.