Change Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Change
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 (Serenity Prayer)
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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