He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A young man who does not have what
it takes to perform military service
is not likely to have what
it takes to make a living.
Today's military rejects include
tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
- John F. Kennedy
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life's a bitch... and then you change your attitude.
- Jennifer Unlimited
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
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
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 (Serenity Prayer)
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
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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