Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

George, David Lloyd

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Hooker, Richard

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.