If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
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
Change does not roll in on the wheels of
inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must
straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you
unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
Change will not come if we wait for some other person
or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the
change that we seek.
Barack Obama
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
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
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror
every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life,
would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer
has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change
something.
Steve Jobs
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error,
change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear;
out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it
would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an
egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely
being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I
feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a
freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of
those people.
John Lennon
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy
If there is anything that we wish to change in the
child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something
that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Tupac Shakur
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
Sting
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
John A. Simone, Sr.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Tony Robbins
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Irene Peter
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Peter Marshall
We live in a moment of history where change is so
speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already
disappearing.
R. D. Laing
Without accepting the fact that everything changes,
we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is
true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the
truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
Denise McCluggage
A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
James Levine
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Bryant H. McGill
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Joel Osteen
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Denis Waitley
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw Lec
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Rupert Murdoch
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Julie Walters
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Irene Peter
When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
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 first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward
Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
Bill Copeland
Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell
The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
William Glasser
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
Mary Douglas
All I want to do is change the world.
W. Clement Stone
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Douglas Horton
Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Barbara Sher
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Armistead Maupin
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.
Robert Anthony
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor
Change is such hard work.
Billy Crystal
To change what you get you must change who you are.
Vernon Howard
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty
As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
Enya
We emphasize that we believe in change because we
were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it.
So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow
down before it.
Carl T. Rowan
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Lech Walesa
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
Ian Botham
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
Victoria Woodhull
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
True change takes place in the imagination.
Thomas Moore
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
Gianni Versace
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
William C. Bryant
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Eleanor Clift
If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Andrea Jung
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
Nancy Astor
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
Alice Meynell
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham
