Things Change Quotes

• If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Change, Wise

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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• Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.

  Saigyō

  Change, Moon, Light

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• I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Change, Money

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 1999.

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• Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Buddhist, Siddhartha

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• Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

  Paul Valery

  Change, Positive, Carpe Diem

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  Destiny is no 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Funny, Change

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• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Aaron Carter Is 'Excited' For the Future After Gaining 40 Pounds at Health and Wellness Facility" by Jennifer Drysdale‍, www.etonline.com. December 1, 2017.

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

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Clothes

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.

  Debra Messing

  Commitment, Years, Littles

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• I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

  Dennis Quaid

  Resistance, Used, Feels

  "Topher Grace & Dennis Quaid". Interview, people.com. January 12, 2005.

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• The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  Alphonse Karr

  Change, Birthday, More The Merrier

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• The more things change, the more they stay different.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Change, Different, Grey

  Melissa de la Cruz (2009). “Girl Stays in the Picture”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Change, Moving On, Clever

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”

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• Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

  John Henry Newman

  Inspirational, Change, Wish

  John Henry Newman (1844). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.225, Aeterna Press

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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015

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• I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

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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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