Change

(103 votes)   The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante (Alighieri)
1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet

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(101 votes)   Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Glen Beaman

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(97 votes)   What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(92 votes)   It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin
1809-1882, British Naturalist

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(90 votes)   Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

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(90 votes)   Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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(88 votes)   Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(86 votes)   All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

G. K. Chesterton

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(86 votes)   Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(86 votes)   I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

John Petworth

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(85 votes)   The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching
12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes

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(84 votes)   Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

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(84 votes)   Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

William A. Ward
1921-,

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(83 votes)   The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Marquis De Sade
1740-1814, French Author

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(83 votes)   There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

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