Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Carol Burnett

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Bible

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hoffer, Eric

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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.

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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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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 can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Andy Warhol

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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