Change Quotes - Positive Quotes about Change

Positive Quotes about Change

Let these Change quotes help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

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

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins

We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

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

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

Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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