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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We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
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) 
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
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
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- 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
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
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
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
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
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
I welcome change. I drive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes
which a man can change at will - and put on at will?
Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill.
It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you ...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
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 we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
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
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
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
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