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Quotations. On Change (II)


Change (II)
. The 56th in a series of collections of useable quotations to make you look really smart in your next presentation or report.

 

 

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
James Levine

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Irene Peter

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher

Change is such hard work.
Billy Crystal

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
Denise McCluggage

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson

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

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

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

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon


He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Julie Walters

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
Ian Botham

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
Mary Douglas

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
John A. Simone, S.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Irene Peter

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Peter Marshall

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
Bill Copeland

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley

 

 

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