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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Change.
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
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
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
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
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
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 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)
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
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
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
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 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
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
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
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
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
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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