Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. – Hugh Prather
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.
Ralph L. Woods
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes it’s beautiful. But most of the time, it’s both.
Lana Lang
They must change often, who would be constant in happiness.
Confucius
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
I’ve learned that you’ll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you’ll be challenged and growing and having fun.
Kirstie Alley
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles F. Kettering
We change, whether we like it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. – Hugh Prather
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John F. Kennedy
One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
Mitch Albom
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
Bill Clinton
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
Walt Disney
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
Turkish proverb
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.
Mandy Hale
It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.
Mandy Hale
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan W. Watts
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 into another.
Anatole France
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
Maya Angelou
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony D’Angelo
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
Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.
Billy Cox
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
George Eliot
All is change; all yields its place and goes.
Euripides
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
Joan Wallach Scott
When you’re through changing, you’re through.
Bruce Barton
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.
Bob Goff
When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly WHEN you jump. Otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.
Oscar Isaacs
Everything flows, nothing stays still.
Heraclitus
It is changing that things find purpose.
Heraclitus
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.
Lao Tzu
In embracing Change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder
You must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey
We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.
Max Depree
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.
Prince Philip of England
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.
Steve Maraboli
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
Steve Maraboli
Change is the only evidence of life.
Evelyn Waugh
Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to stay the same.
Anon.
If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.
Anon.
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
Anon.
Don’t make a change too complicated, just begin.
Anon.
Small changes eventually add up to huge results.
Anon.
You can’t change what’s going on around you until you start changing what’s going on within you.
Anon.
When in doubt, choose change.
Lily Leung
I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, ‘turn back.’
Erica Jong
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
Pauline R. Kezer
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
Eckhart Tolle
All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews
Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.
Marcus Aurelius
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
Turbulence is a life force. It is an opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsey Clark
Every day the clock resets. Your wins don’t matter. Your failures don’t matter. Don’t stress on what was, fight for what could be.
Sean Higgins
One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. Arthur Chirstopher Benson
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.
French Proverb
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman
Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at.
Jason Lemkin
If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King. Jr.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Just take any step, whether small or large. And then another and repeat day after day. It may take months, maybe years, but the path to success will become clear. Aaron Ross
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Wayne W. Dyer
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
Barbara Kingsolver
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. Libba Bray
One day or day one. You decide. Anon.
Well done is better than well said – Benjamin Franklin
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