Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tilden, Bill

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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?

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Harrison Ford

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Davis, William B.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Bible

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles