Inspirations

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

- A Course In Miracles

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

- Abernathy

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

- Saul Alinsky

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

- Mary S Almanac

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

- Lisa Alther

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

- Isaac Asimov

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, and to make new things like them.

- Marcus Aurelius

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

- Francis Bacon

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

- James Baldwin

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

- James Baldwin

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- James Baldwin

When you're through changing, you're through.

- Bruce Barton

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

- Simone De Beauvoir

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

- Gita Bellin

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

- Arnold Bennett

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

- Henri L Bergson

There is no new thing under the sun.

- Ecclesiastes 1:9, Bible

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

- Ludwig Borne

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

- Nathaniel Branden

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

- Les Brown

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Les Brown

You have the power to change.

- Les Brown

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

- Lyman L Bryson

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

- Buddha

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

- Edmund Burke

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

- Carol Burnett

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things. First, a dissatisfaction with self, a felt void or need, second, a decision to change to fill the void or need, and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change, the willful act of making the change, doing something.

- Leo Buscaglia

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

- Eric Butterworth

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

- Thomas Carlyle

Today is not yesterday, we ourselves change, how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful, yet ever needful, and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

- Thomas Carlyle

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

- Joyce Cary

In pain is a new time born.

- Adelbert Von Chamisso

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

- Winston Churchill

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Karen Kaiser Clark

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

- Henry S Commager

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

- Confucius

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order, to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order, to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life, and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point, a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

- Thomas Crum

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

- Anthony J D'Angelo

Don't fear change, embrace it.

- Anthony J D'Angelo

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

- Charles Darwin

It struck me while I was sitting here, everything changes but the sea.

- William B Davis

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

- Max Depree

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions, so find out how to light their fires.

- Jeff Dewar

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

- Charles Dickens

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Benjamin Disraeli

The search for static security, in the law and elsewhere, is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

- William O Douglas

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- William Drayton

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

- Peter F Drucker

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

- Peter F Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

- Peter F Drucker

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

- Wayne Dyer

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

- Albert Einstein

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes, goodwill among men and peace on earth.

- Albert Einstein

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

- George Eliot

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

- Marilyn Ferguson

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

- Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

- James Dillet Freeman

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

- Robert C Gallagher

Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

We must become the change we want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

- Charles A Garfield

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

- David Lloyd George

One person's constant is another person's variable.

- Susan Gerhart

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

- Joan Gilbertson

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

- Ellen Glasgow

Everybody wants to be somebody, nobody wants to grow.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

- George Gurdjieff

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

- Woody Guthrie

Times change, and we change with them.

- William Harrison

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

- Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

- Heraclitus

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

- Eric Hoffer

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

- Trinidad Hunt

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

- I Ching

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

- Jesse Jackson

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

- Nelson Jackson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change, the change itself is nothing, when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted, let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

- Samuel Johnson

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

- Alphonse Karr

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

- Kearney

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

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

- John F Kennedy

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

- Robert F Kennedy

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

- Charles F Kettering

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

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.

- Lao-Tzu

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

- Bruce Lee

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

- Harold Macmillan

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

- Sidney Madwed

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

- Norman Mailer

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

- Richard Marcinko

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

- Abraham H Maslow

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

- Laurence J Mcginley

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

- William Mcgovern

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

- Menander of Athens

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

- Mike Murdock

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

- John Naisbitt

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

- John Henry Newman

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 and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

- Herbert A Otto

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

- Ovid

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

- Jean Paul

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

- Octavio Paz

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

- Thomas J Peters

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

- John Petworth

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

- T Boone Pickens

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

- Irene Porter

To change and change for the better are two different things

- German Proverb

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Portuguese Proverb

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

- Spanish Proverb

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Anthony Robbins

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

- Anthony Robbins

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

- Jim Rohn

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Nolan Ryan

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

- Robert H Schuller

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Dorothy Serrity

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Barbara Sher

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

- Marsha Sinetar

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

- Socrates

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

- Herbert Spencer

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

- Publilius Syrus

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Things do not change, we do.

- Henry David Thoreau

Never change a winning game, always change a losing one.

- Bill Tilden

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

- Alvin Toffler

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Count Leo Tolstoy

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

- Brian Tracy

Two basic rules of life. 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this. When you are through changing, you're through.

- Source Unknown

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

- Source Unknown

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

- Source Unknown

The only people who like change are wet babies.

- Source Unknown

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

- Source Unknown

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

- Source Unknown

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

- Source Unknown

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

- Source Unknown

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

- Source Unknown

Constant change is here to stay.

- Source Unknown

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change, then you will change.

- Source Unknown

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

- Source Unknown

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- William A Ward

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

- Alan W Watts

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

- Alan W Watts

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

- Harold Wilson

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

- Woodrow T Wilson

Everything changes but change.

- Israel Zangwill

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Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 7: Learning to Forgive

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

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, and to make new things like them.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

When you're through changing, you're through.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

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

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

There is no new thing under the sun.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

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

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

You have the power to change.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Today is not yesterday, we ourselves change, how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful, yet ever needful, and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

In pain is a new time born.

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order, to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order, to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life, and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point, a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Don't fear change, embrace it.

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

It struck me while I was sitting here, everything changes but the sea.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions, so find out how to light their fires.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

The search for static security, in the law and elsewhere, is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes, goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

We must become the change we want to see.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

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

Everybody wants to be somebody, nobody wants to grow.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Times change, and we change with them.

Change alone is unchanging.