Quotes about change

I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Change'.

• Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all the patterns alter. (Sharon Salzberg)
• The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. (John Schaar)
• When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. (Barbara J. Winter)
• Keep a green tree alive in your heart and a songbird may come to sing there. (Chinese Proverb)
• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. (Denis Waitley)
• Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. (Sydney J. Harris)
• The most profound choice in life is to either accept things as they exist or to accept the responsibility for changing them. (from The Universal Traveler by Don Koberg and Jim )
• Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. (Maria Robinson)
• I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past. (Stephen Covey)
• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. (Abraham H. Maslow)
• That which you resist will persist. (Unknown)
• Change can be beautiful, when we are brave enough to evolve with it. (Bryant McGill)
• To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love. (Leo Buscaglia)
• An unwritten want is a wish, a dream, a never-happen. The day you put your goal in writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life. Are you ready? (Tom Hopkins)
• To unlock the door to the future, you must first posses the key to the past. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. (Jimmy Dean)
• Sometimes the slightest shift in the way you look at things, a seemingly insignificant change in perspective can alter your life forever. (Unknown)
• He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. (Anwar al-Sadat)
• Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk. (Leo Buscaglia)
• To change our lives, we must first change our minds. (Unknown)
• You can't always change your situation, but you can always change your attitude. (Larry Hargraves)
• Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values (Dalai Lama)
• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. (Lao Tzu)
• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. (Alan Cohen)
• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. (Maya Angelou)
• Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. (Dalai Lama)
• It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment. (Peter Shepherd)
• The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow. (Will Garcia)
• The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. (Hugh White)
• I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. (Hermann Hesse)
• Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan)
• In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. (Eric Hoffer)
• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. (Jim Rohn)
• Things don't have to change the world to be important. (Steve Jobs)
• However good or bad a situation is, it will change. (Unknown)
• You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. (Brian Tracy)
• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. (Anatole France)
• If you have made mistakes there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford)
• When we are no longer able to change a situation... we are challenged to change ourselves. (Victor Frankl)
• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow we aren't really living. (Gail Sheehy)
• Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. (James Baldwin)
• It takes more courage to alter an opinion than to stick with it. (Unknown)
• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. (John F. Kennedy)
• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. (Gail Sheehy)
• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. (Paul Boese)
• You can't change the past, and you can ruin a perfectly good present, by worrying about the future. (Unknown) Click here for illustrated quote
• When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? (John Maynard Keynes)
• In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom. (Buddha)
• It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. (Anthony Robbins)
• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change - and to preserve change amid order. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• It's never the changes we want that change everything. (Junot Diaz)
• Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires. (Orison Swett Marden)
• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. (Richard Buckminster Fuller)
• Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them, that only creates sorrow. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. (Lao Tzu) [philosopher]
• Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel. (Georgette Mosbacher)
• It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it. (Willy Brandt)
• We have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way, we cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is remember to keep a positive attitude. It will keep our burdens light. (Unknown)
• We are precisely where we are because of the choices we have made in the past. (Unknown)
• Your best is going to change from moment to moment. It will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret (Don Miguel Ruiz)
• It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. (Winston Churchill)
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Unknown)
• The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. (Unknown)

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Jayne Herbert - Penzance - Cornwall