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Change

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Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Depree, Max

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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.

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Tracy, Brian

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Confucius

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita