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Change

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Proust, Marcel

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Real Live Preacher

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Spander, Art

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

26.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

30.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Klee, Paul

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

Porter, Irene

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Sontag, Susan

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