Change Quotes - Page 22

• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Perfect, Worry, Suffering

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• Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

  Robert Kennedy

  Nice, Inspiration, Enemy Of Progress

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Leadership, Freedom

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Changing, True Life, Tiny

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• Death is just a change in lifestyles.

  Stephen Levine

  Life, Death, Grieving

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.290, Anchor

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  You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

  Maude Barlow

  Inspirational, Real, Issues

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• There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Decay, Common, Subjects

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• It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

  Timothy Keller

  Bible, Christian, Prayer

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.19, Penguin

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Moving, Mean

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• Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

  Lance Armstrong

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Focus

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Moving On, Graduation

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

  Bob Proctor

  Inspirational, Success, Morning

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 20, 2013

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• It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Inspirational, Morning, Home

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• Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Strength, Strong

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

  Edward de Bono

  Attitude, Creativity, Thinking

  Edward De Bono (1971). “The use of lateral thinking”

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• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

  Herbert Otto Gille

  Life, Self Esteem, Learning

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• Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Political, World

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.87, Book Tree

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• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

  John Lennon

  Wisdom, Love Yourself, Passion

  "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

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• Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

  Ben Bernanke

  Technology, Years, Entrepreneur

  "Letting the air out". www.economist.com. November 19, 2008.

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Truth, Past

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

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• Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

  Laurens van der Post

  Life Changing, Journey, Growth

  Laurens Van der Post (1979). “Venture to the interior”, Harcourt

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

  George Eliot

  Life, Influence, Succession

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2578, ShandonPress

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• To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

  Tom Peters

  Past, Demand, Scene

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