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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• You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

  Kirstie Alley

  Fun, Eye, Territory

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Nature

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Success, Business, Thinking

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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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• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Despair, Raw Materials

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

  Cesar Chavez

  Ambition, Achievement, Community

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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.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Men, America, Racism

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Peace, Responsibility

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  In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

  Ernst Fischer

  Art, Society, Decay

  Ernst Fischer, Anna Bostock (1978). “The necessity of art: a Marxist approach”, Puffin

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• To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

  William James

  Life, Philosophical, Inspire

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• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Morning

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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