Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...
Every step toward the goal of justice
requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle;
the tireless exertions and
passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill.
It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you ...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable.
They little know what radical change are possible through prayer.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O infinite creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability,
but comes through continuous struggle.
And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.
A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
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
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
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
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
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
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
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)
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
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
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
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
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
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
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
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