Change

(258 votes)   To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions.

William James

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(251 votes)   Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy

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(244 votes)   The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

Robert Heinlein

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(243 votes)   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.

Leo Buscaglia
American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author

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(242 votes)   Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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(236 votes)   Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist

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(232 votes)   The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest

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(227 votes)   Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(220 votes)   Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(217 votes)   If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

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(211 votes)   One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(204 votes)   Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

John W. Draper
1811-1882, American Chemist

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(204 votes)   People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(203 votes)   Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(200 votes)   Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Charles A. Garfield
American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer

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