Change They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett (1936 - ) Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Christina Baldwin The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it. E. B. White (1899 - 1985) He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995), Speech to the Consultive Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, January 23, 1967 We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1970) Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Its not that some people have willpower and some dont. Its that some people are ready to change and others are not. James Gordon, M.D. Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too. Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012 Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey. Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012 People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you. Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012 The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being. Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012 When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people. Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012 Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. King Whitney Jr. We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989 The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004 This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. Theres only change and resistance to it and then more change. Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010 The more things change, the more they remain... insane. Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04 There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), A Long Walk to Freedom Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993) Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Lets love turbulence and use it for change. Ramsay Clark This isnt good or bad. Its just the way of things. Nothing stays the same. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher Weblog, January 03, 2004 Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of Affirmation address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966 Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968) If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it. Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010 Nothing in the world is permanent, and were foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely were still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razors Edge, 1943 A year from now you will wish you had started today. — Karen Lamb Life Changing Quotes “It doesn’t matter where you are; you are nowhere compared to where you can go.” – Bob Proctor “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” – Wayne Gretzky “Lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at you.” – David Brinkley “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard “Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.” – Bikram Choudhury “If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” – Barack Obama “To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time’.” – Unknown “If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.” – Mark Twain “Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” – Henry van Dyke “In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” – Tony Robbins “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard “As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation list.” – John Eliot “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Unknown “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher “When in doubt, choose change.” – Lily Leung “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe “It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.” – Bob Proctor “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” – Lemony Snicket “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne “Never, never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky “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 “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill “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.” – Terry Pratchett “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.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa “You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” – Neil Gaiman “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” – Libba Bray “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” – Ovid “Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.” – Karl Marx “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes” – Johann Wolfgang “Fashion changes, but style endures.” – Coco Chanel “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.” – Madonna “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” – Aldous Huxley “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” – Stephen King “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.” – J.D. Salinger “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.” – Steve Maraboli “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” – Leo Tolstoy “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb We hope you enjoyed these life changing quotes. Please feel free to share your own quotes in the comments. “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” - Unknown “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown “I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine “Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.” – Unknown “One of the most important keys to Success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you dont feel like doing it.” - Unknown “Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen.” - Unknown “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby “Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value of you, it’s time for a new start.” – Unknown “Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.” - Unknown “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra “Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.” - Unknown “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs “Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” – Unknown “When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!” - Unknown “Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” - Unknown “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” - Unknown “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray “The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown “Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?” – Unknown “We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.” - Unknown “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” - Unknown “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget “Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it’s said, the MOMENT after it’s missed and the TIME after it’s gone. Be Careful!” – Unknown “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard “When the past calls, let it go to voicemail, believe me, it has nothing new to say.” - Unknown “Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy.” - Unknown “Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools.” – Unknown “Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” – Unknwon “Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.” – Unknown “The biggest failure you can have in life is making the mistake of never trying at all.” – Unknown “Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.” - Unknown “No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself.” - Unknown
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