Accepting Change Quotes

• Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

  Ray Noorda

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

  Greg Bear

  Grief, Accepting, Inefficiency

  Greg Bear (2014). “Eon”, p.117, Open Road Media

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• I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

  James Van Fleet

  Long, Progress, Sake

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.37, Penguin

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• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 18, 2017

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  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.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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• The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Powerful

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

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Change, Stay Strong

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Courage, Differences

  "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, www.beliefnet.com. 1951.

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• When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

  Andy Warhol

  Change, People, Want

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2015). “POPism: The Warhol Sixties”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Nathaniel Branden

  Change, Acceptance, Second Chance

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• There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

  Washington Irving

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

  'Tales of a Traveller' (1824) 'To the Reader'

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Perfect, Worry

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• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  Carl Rogers

  Change, Appreciation, Hypnosis

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• If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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