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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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- Francis Bacon
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James A. Baldwin
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When you are through changing, you are through.
- Bruce Barton
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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
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When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits - all without any directing intelligence at all.
- Bruce Barton
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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
- Bruce Barton
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennett
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
- Bertolt Brecht
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
- Harrison Ford
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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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
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Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
- Robert C. Gallagher
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas Gandhi
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
- Ellen Glasgow
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- Frank Herbert
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
- Washington Irving
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If there is anything 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 G. Jung
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- Charles Kettering
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- R. D. Laing
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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw Lec
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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
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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to ahve artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
- Henry Miller
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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
- Kathleen Norris
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Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
- Irene Peter
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
- Irene Peter
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
- Irene Peter
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
- Carl T. Rowan
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
- George Bernard Shaw
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
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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, Sr.
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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
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Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
- Mark Twain
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
- Harold Wilson
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