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Change

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Felltham, Owen

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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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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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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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Petworth, John

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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