Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Draper, John W.

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

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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

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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