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I hope you find these Charles R. Swindoll Quotes inspiring and motivational.
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
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Wisdom Attitude Acceptance
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
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
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
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
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)
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
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
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
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
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
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
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
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
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
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
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
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
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
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness lies in accepting everyone
in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever
we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
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