Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Bible

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Draper, John W.

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

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

Carol Burnett

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

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

Spander, Art

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Heraclitus

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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.

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.