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Change

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The only people who like change are wet babies.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shaw, P.K.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Spander, Art

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

Christina Baldwin

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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

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Depree, Max

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Virgil

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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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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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Confucius

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

Herford, Oliver