Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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

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.

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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Virgil

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Bible

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

Udall, Mo

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Ruskin, John

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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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