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Change

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

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ramsay Clark

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Davis, William B.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Confucius

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Baudrillard, Jean