316 quotes
“The only thing constant in life is change.”
— Heraclitus
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
— Alan Watts
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Thoreau
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”
— Viktor Frankl
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
— Unknown
“Every great change is preceded by chaos”
— Deepak Chopra
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you”
— Octavia Butler
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
“Real change is brought about through kindness practiced moment by moment day by day”
— Sharon Salzberg
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
— James Baldwin
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
— Abraham Maslow
“If you dont like something change it if you cant change it change your attitude”
— Maya Angelou
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
— T.S. Eliot
“There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear”
— Euripides
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
— Nelson Mandela
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
— Lao Tzu
“Change begins with enduring discomfort.”
— Anonymous
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live.”
— Neville Goddard
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
— Confucius
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
— Margaret Mead
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you the only lasting truth is change”
“To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly through time”
— Henri Bergson
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself”
— Andy Warhol
“I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it and faith is what prevents the reduction”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.”
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
— William James
“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.”
“Small changes make a big difference.”
— Malcolm Gladwell
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
— Kakuzo Okakura
“One cannot step twice in the same river.”
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
— Jacob M. Braude
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way”
— Grace Hopper
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
— Karl Marx
“The only thing that is constant is change”
“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
— Socrates
“To reach a state you have never been you must do what you have never done.”
“A small step makes a big change.”
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
— Marcel Proust
“In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through that fill us with wonder”
“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be”
— John Wooden
“Change brings opportunity.”
— Nido Qubein
“The only thing that is constant is change. Finding peace within change is wisdom.”
“Small changes make a big transformation.”
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
— Philip Pullman
“The only thing permanent in life is change.”
“The universe is change. Our life is what our thoughts make it. Choose thoughts of peace.”
“It is no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
— Lewis Carroll
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
— Eric Hoffer
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“What is scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away.”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
“All change is hard at first messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end”
— Robin Sharma
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
— Harold Kushner
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”
— Tony Robbins
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
— Charles Kettering
“If people dont like the situation they are in they can change it. They are not trees. Peace is always possible.”
— Mikhail Gorbachev
“The wise man changes his mind; the fool never will.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world around you, beginning with your own heart.”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
— Stephen Hawking
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“We cannot change what we are not aware of and once we are aware we cannot help but change”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“The only permanent thing is change.”
“In this world nothing is certain people and things are always changing”
— Murasaki Shikibu
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new through faith”
“And once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you will not be the same person who walked in.”
— Haruki Murakami
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.”
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality to change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”
— Buckminster Fuller
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance.”
“Do not fear change. Change is the beginning of opportunity.”
— Robert Kiyosaki
“Change your thoughts and you change your world”
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
— Carl Jung
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
— Harold Wilson
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change and healing begins”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
“Time brings all things to pass.”
— Aeschylus
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”
— Muhammad Ali
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself”
“Nothing happens unless you challenge.”
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”
“People do not resist change they resist being changed”
— Peter Senge
“Time the devourer of all things.”
— Ovid
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself especially after failure”
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
“We live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
“Open your arms to change but do not let go of your values.”
— Dalai Lama
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin
“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way but time demands change”
“Without action, there can be no change.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Be the peace you wish to see.”
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
— W.B. Yeats
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”
“The only constant in life is change.”
“The capacity to be alone is a valuable resource when changes of mental attitude are required”
— Anthony Storr
“You are one decision away from a totally different life”
— Mel Robbins
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Peace and change are always possible.”
“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
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced with compassion”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“Sometimes it is the smallest decision that can change your life forever.”
— Keri Russell
“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.”
— Bill Clinton
“One child one teacher one book one pen can change the world”
— Malala Yousafzai
“To listen is to lean in softly with a willingness to be changed by what we hear and that is healing”
— Mark Nepo
“All that exists changes.”
“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness.”
“The times they are a-changin.”
— Bob Dylan
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
“I realized that I can change myself for the better.”
— Carlos Castaneda
“You can not go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
— C.S. Lewis
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“You are one decision away from a completely different life”
“If you want to change the fruits you have to change the roots.”
— T. Harv Eker
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.”
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution”
— Hannah Arendt
“We live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change through self-compassion”
— Carl Rogers
“Dont live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.”
— Laozi
“The world is changed by your example not by your opinion”
— Paulo Coelho
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“A single attempt can change history.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves.”
— Anatole France
“I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples”
— Mother Teresa
“Creativity is the power to reject the past and change the status quo”
— Ai Weiwei
“I very frequently get the question what is going to change in the next ten years but the question should be what is not going to change and how does time shape that”
— Jeff Bezos
“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.”
— Washington Irving
“If you resist change you resist life”
— Sadhguru
“One of the most challenging aspects of healing is the willingness to accept that your life has changed forever”
— Caroline Myss
“Forty percent of our happiness is within our power to change.”
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”
— Alvin Toffler
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself and time is the catalyst”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays through faith”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Even in the winter, even in the dark, the sun does not lose its strength. It merely waits to return.”
“One cannot step twice into the same river.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes do not resist them that only creates sorrow”
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes dont resist them that only creates sorrow”
“Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
— Woodrow Wilson
“All is change; all yields its place and goes.”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“One child one teacher one book one pen can change the world.”
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.”
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world and faith is the force behind that transformation”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance and dancing is itself healing”
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
“If we keep doing what were doing, were going to keep getting what were getting.”
— Brendon Burchard
“When we are no longer able to change a situation in family we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future”
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“No one ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and we are not the same person and this is wonder”
“The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience.”
— Diane Ackerman
“All change begins with pleasure.”
— Albert Einstein
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
— Steve Jobs
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing and our efforts to find lasting healing pleasure become a source of suffering until we learn to rest in change”
— Tara Brach
“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
“If you do not like something change it. If you cannot change it change your attitude.”
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“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
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves and faith enables that change”
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot accept”
— Angela Davis
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world indeed it is the only thing that ever has”
“There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.”
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
“Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change”
“It is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change.”
— Wangari Maathai
“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
— Jim Rohn
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing and compassion holds us steady”
“Everything changes.”
“Remember you have been criticizing yourself for years and it has not worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
— Louise Hay
“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.”
“The universe is change and our life is what our thoughts make it and faith transforms our thoughts into channels of grace”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
“To achieve goals you have never achieved before, you need to start doing things you have never done before.”
— Stephen Covey
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
— John F. Kennedy
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay.”
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
— Dan Millman
“Loss is nothing else but change and change is the delight of nature.”
“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.”
— Friedrich Dürrenmatt
“If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.”
“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.”
— Debby Boone
“In mindfulness, acceptance always comes first, change comes after.”
— Chade-Meng Tan
“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing themselves and that inner change requires faith”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“The moment you believe in yourself, everything changes.”
“The world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy.”
— Abraham Cowley
“Change is the only constant in life.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. This is the peace of change.”
“Happiness is not the belief that we do not need to change; it is the realization that we can.”
— Shawn Achor
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
— Bertolt Brecht
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
“Open your arms to change but dont let go of your values keep your life simple by holding what matters”
“You are one decision away from a totally different life.”
“The world is changed by your example not by your opinion and compassion is the greatest example”
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