186 Dealing With Change quotes

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Change your thinking, change your life.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Nothing is forever except change.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Change alone is unchanging.

Things do not change; we change.

You must welcome change as the rule, but not as your ruler.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.

If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Dynamism is a function of change.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

All is flux, nothing stays still.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Change before you have to.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

It’s never too late to be who you might have been.

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better.

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships are built.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It’s by taking chances that you’ll learn how to be brave.

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

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.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

To change one’s life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

If you want things in your life to change, you have to change things in your life.

Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

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.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

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.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.

Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience.

Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

If change is constant, then learning must also be continual.

To know and not to do, is not to know.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

A year from now you will wish you had started today.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

I’m adaptable.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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.

One can remain alive if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

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.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.