Quotes about change

"It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."

Burns, George on change
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"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 on change
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"We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are."

Butterworth, Eric on change
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"Give wind and tide a chance to change."

Byrd, Richard E. on change   

"The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself."

Byron, Lord on change   

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

Carlyle, Thomas on change
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"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."

Carlyle, Thomas on change
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"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."

Carlyle, Thomas on change
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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 on change   

"In pain is a new time born."

Chamisso, Adelbert Von on change
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

Churchill, Winston on change
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"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

Clark, Karen Kaiser on change
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"If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America."

Cleaver, Eldridge on change   

"You do not notice changes in what is always before you."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on change
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"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."

Commager, Henry S. on change
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"They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom."

Confucius on change
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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 on change
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"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."

Confucius on change
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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. on change
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"Chords that were broken will vibrate once more."

Crosby, Fanny on change
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"Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides."

Crum, Thomas on change
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"Don't fear change -- embrace it."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on change
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"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on change
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"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come."

Dante Alighieri on change   

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Darrow, Clarence on change
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"It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea."

Davis, William B. on change
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"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

Dean, Jimmy on change
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"We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are."

Depree, Max on change
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"Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires."

Dewar, Jeff on change
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"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress."

Dickens, Charles on change
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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 on change
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"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

Disraeli, Benjamin on change
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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. on change
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"Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none."

Draper, John W. on change   

"Change starts when someone sees the next step."

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

Drucker, Peter F. on change
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"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

Drucker, Peter F. on change
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"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

Drucker, Peter F. on change
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"Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there."

Dunn, Elizabeth C. on change
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"If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study."

Dyer, Wayne on change