Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

Einstein, Albert

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

10.

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

Gerhart, Susan

11.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

12.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

13.

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

Carol Burnett

14.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

15.

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

Spander, Art

16.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

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

Butterworth, Eric

18.

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

Porter, Irene

19.

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

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

24.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

28.

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.

29.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

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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

32.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

33.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

35.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

36.

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

George, David Lloyd

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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

39.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

40.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

41.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

42.

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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

44.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

45.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

47.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

48.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

50.

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