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Change

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Best Quotes about Change

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.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Menander of Athens

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Buffett, Warren

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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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 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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Ramsay Clark

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

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

Eliot, George

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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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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

Virgil

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Spander, Art

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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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Rohn, Jim

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid