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Change

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Best Quotes about Change

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren