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Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Porter, Irene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

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

Virgil

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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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 search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Dean, Jimmy

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl