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May you find great value in these Change quotes and sayings.
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
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)
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
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
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
For time and the world do not stand still.
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
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
What is happening? What do you feel?
What do you see? What do you hear?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
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
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
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
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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