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Change

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Felltham, Owen

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Riley, Pat

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Virgil

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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.