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(895 votes)  Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(5380 votes)  Constant change is here to stay.

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(1056 votes)  They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(1012 votes)  The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(985 votes)  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.

General Adalphos

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(969 votes)  If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Maya Angelou

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(928 votes)  It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.

American proverb

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(926 votes)  There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

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(918 votes)  Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(904 votes)  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.

Saul Alinsky

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(898 votes)  Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist

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

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(875 votes)  In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Anne Sophie Swetchine
1782-1857, Russian Author

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(873 votes)  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.

William O. Douglas
1898-1980, American Supreme Court Justice

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(872 votes)  We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Mary Antin

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(868 votes)  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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(867 votes)  Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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(865 votes)  Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(864 votes)  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.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(864 votes)  Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Mary S. Almanac

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(864 votes)  A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle? Muste replied, Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me.

Andrea Ayvazian

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

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(846 votes)  There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(845 votes)  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.

Lisa Alther
1944-, American Author

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(841 votes)  Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Elspeth Huxley
1907-, British Author

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(830 votes)  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.

Saul Alinsky
1909-1972, American Radical Activist

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(827 votes)  Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Jacob M. Braude

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(826 votes)  Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Glen Beaman

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(824 votes)  Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(820 votes)  Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(818 votes)  Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Irene Porter

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(810 votes)  All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow

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(806 votes)  All movements go too far.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(805 votes)  Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Robert F. Kennedy

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(804 votes)  The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest

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(801 votes)  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.

Reinhold Niebuhr
1892-1971, American Theologian, Historian

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(801 votes)  The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

John Schaar

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(798 votes)  We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

John Naisbitt
American Trend Analyst, Futurist, Author

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(797 votes)  Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas A. Kempis

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(796 votes)  Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

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(796 votes)  Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Brian Tracy
American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman

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(795 votes)  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
46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer

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(793 votes)  It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin

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(793 votes)  Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Caroline Schoeder

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(790 votes)  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.

Washington Irving
1783-1859, American Author

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(786 votes)  Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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(765 votes)  Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist

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(755 votes)  If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

Kurt Lewin

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