120 Quotes About Change in Life and Moving On

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I leave you 120 quotes about change in life and have a happier new life of great historical authors. Among them are Gandhi , Stephen Hawking, Walt Disney, Nelson Mandela, Wayner Dyer or Steve Jobs. They will help you reflect on what you need to change and have a happier new life.

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1. “Everyone thinks about changing the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.”
-Leo Tolstoy

2. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
-Wayne Dyer

3. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

4. “Your life does not improve by chance, it improves by change.”
-Jim Rohn

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5. “When we can not change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
-Viktor E. Frankl

6. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.”
-Carl Rogers

7. “Since we can not change reality, let’s change the eyes with which we see reality.”
-Nikos Kazantzakis

8. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgment that something is more important than fear.”
-Ambrose Redmoon

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9. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present will surely be lost in the future.”
-John F. Kennedy

10. “Things do not change; we change ourselves.”
-Henry David Thoreau

11. “I hope everyone who is reading this is having a very good day. And if you’re not having it, be aware that every minute that passes, you have a chance to change that.”
-Gillian Anderson

12. “To improve is to change; being perfect is changing often.”
-Winston Churchill

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13. “The world we have created is a process of our thinking. It can not be changed without changing our thinking.”
-Albert Einstein

14. “A year later you’ll wish you started today.”
-Karen Lamb

15. “When suffering is more difficult than changing, you will change.”
-Robert Athony

16. “Change your thoughts and change the world.
-Norman Vincent Peale

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17. “I alone can not change the world, but I can throw a stone in the water to create many waves.”
-Mother Teresa

18. “We must be willing to let go of the life we ​​plan to have the life that is waiting for us.”
-Joseph Campbell

19. “Every great change begins with a dreamer. Always remember; you have within you the strength, patience and passion to reach the stars and change the world.”
-Harriet Tubman

20. “Destiny is not a matter of luck, it is a matter of choice. It’s not something to expect, it’s something to be achieved.”
-William Jennings Bryan

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21. “The one who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution that rejects progress is the cemetery.”
-Harold Wilson

22. “For changes to be of real value, they have to be long-lasting and consistent.”
-Tony Robbins

23. “You are as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
-Timothy Leary

24. “The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the candles.”
-William Arthur Ward

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25. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who can not change their minds can not change anything.”
-George Bernard Shaw

26. “If you realize that all things change, there is nothing that you will want to stay with. If you do not fear death, there is nothing you can not get.”
-Lao Tzu

27. “If you are in a bad situation, do not worry, it will change. If you are in a good situation, do not worry, it will change.”
-John A. Simone

26. “We can change our lives.” We can be, do and have exactly what we want.”
Tony Robbins

30. “You must take personal responsibility. You can not change circumstances, seasons or wind, but you can change yourself. It’s something you’re in charge of.”
-Jim Rohn

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31. “Yesterday I was ready, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise and I want to change myself.”
-Rumi

32. “To change your life: start immediately. Do it ostentatiously.’
-William James

33. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
-Stephen Hawking

34. “The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest with their lives.”
-Armistead Maupin

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35. “Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.”
-Adlai E. Stevenson

36. “Self-concept is the key to the change of personality and behavior.”
-Maxwell Maltz

37. “No need to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
-W. Edwards Deming

38. “Failure is not fatal, but it could be failure to change.”
-John Wooden

39. “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to create oneself without ceasing.”
-Henri Bergson

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40. “I can not say that things will improve if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they have to improve.”
-Georg C. Lichtenberg

41. “I wanted to change the world.” But I’ve found that the only thing you can change for sure is yourself.”
-Aldous Huxley

42. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but we rarely admit the changes that have happened to get that beauty.”
-Maya Angelou

43. “People underestimate their ability to change. There is no right time to do something difficult.”
-John Porter

44. “Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by inconvenience and inconvenience.”
-Arnold Bennett

45. “Sometimes the smallest decision can change your life forever.”
-Keri Russell

46. “There are three constants in life … change, choice and principles.”
-Stephen Covey

47. “If you think that feeling bad or worried will change a past or present event, you are living on another planet with another system of reality.”
William James

48. “We can not change the past, so we change how people think, feel, and behave.”
-Albert Ellis

49. “To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
-John Henry Newman

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50. “The world hates change, and yet it is the only thing that brings progress.”
-Charles Kettering

51. “The only educated person is one who has learned how to learn and change.”
-Carl Rogers

52. “If you do not like something, change it. If you can not change it, change your attitude.”
-Maya Angelou

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53. “The first step towards change is consciousness. The second step is acceptance.”
-Nathaniel Branden

54. “Change is not only probable, it is inevitable.”
-Barbara Sher

55. “When you forgive, you do not change the past in any way, but you certainly change the future.”
-Bernard Meltzer

56. “They always say that time changes things, but in fact you have to change them yourself.”
-Andy Warhol

57. “What is necessary to change a person is to change their consciousness about themselves.”
-Abraham Maslow

58. “If you do not change the address, you could end up where you started.”
-Lao Tzu

59. “Without change, something sleeps within us. The one who sleeps must wake up.”
-Frank Herbert

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60. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negatives, you will never change the outcome.”
-Michael Jordan

61. “In the last 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and wondered: If today were your last day of life, would you want to do what you are going to do today? And if the answer has been “no” for too long, I know I need some change.”
-Steve Jobs

62. “If we do not change, we do not grow. If we do not grow, we really are not living.”
-Gail Sheehy

63. “To change what you get you must change what you are.”
-Vernon Howard

64. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
-Robin Williams

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65. “Never believe that a few people who care about themselves can not change the world. Because, in fact, those are the ones that have always changed you.”
-Margaret Mead

66. “We can not change anything until we do not accept ourselves. The sentence does not release, oppress.”
-Carl Jung

67. “Just when I think I’ve learned the way to live life, life changes.”
-Hugh Prather

68. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it is the ability to deal with them.”
-Steve Maraboli

69. “Often a change of ourselves is more necessary than a change of scenery.”
-AC Benson

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70. “There is nothing permanent except change.”
-Heraclitus

71. “Face what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
-Soren Kierkegaard

72. “The world is changing rapidly. The great will not hit the small. It will be the fast that hits the slow.”
-Rupert Murdoch

73. “God gave me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-Reinhold Niebuhr

74. “If you do not like the way things are, change them, you’re not a tree.
-Jim Rohn

75. “You can not control what’s happening to you, but you can control your attitude to what’s happening to you.”
-Brian Tracy

76. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
-Woodrow Wilson

77. “Change your life today. Do not play with your future, act now, without delay.”
-Simone de Beauvoir

78. “Miracles happen daily, change your perception of what a miracle is and you will see them around you.”
-Jon Bon Jovi

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79. “Dear friends, love is better than hatred. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. Therefore, let us love, hope, be optimistic, and change in the world.”
-Jack Layton.

80. “Slowness in change usually means fear of the new.”
-Phil Crosby.

81. “If there is something we want to change in the child, we should examine ourselves first and see if it is not something we could change in ourselves.”
-Carl Jung.

82. “Vision without action is only a dream. With action without vision only time passes. With vision and action you can change the world.”
-Joel A. Barker

83. “The lost is nothing more than change, and change is a delight of nature.”
-Marco Aurelio

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84. “To change a habit, make a conscious decision. Then, act according to the new behavior.”
-Maxwell Maltz

85. “Sometimes if you want to see things change for the better, you have to do things with your own hands.”
-Clean Eastwood

86. “Money and success do not change people; simply amplify what is already there.”
-Will Smith

87. “Change in all things is sweet.”
-Aristotle

88. “Growth is the only evidence of life.”
-John Henry Newman

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89. “Not all change is growth, just as not all movement is forward.”
-Ellen Glasgow

90-. “Change your opinions, keep your principles; change your experiences, keep your roots intact.”
-Victor Hugo

91. “You may not be able to change the situation, but with humor you can change your attitude toward her.”
-Allen Klein

92. “Find pleasure in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home … it is your responsibility to love him or change him.
-Chuck Palahniuk

93. “When you’ve just changed, you’re done.”
-Benjamin Franklin.

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94. We spend our time looking for safety and hate it when we get it.
-John Steinbeck.

95. Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to stay the same but better.
-Sydney J. Harris.

96. The times and conditions change so quickly that we must keep our goal constantly focused on the future.
-Walt Disney.

97. Perfection is immutable. But for imperfect things, change is the way to perfect them.
-Owen Feltham.

98. “Excuses do not change anything, but they make people feel better.”
-Mason Cooley

99. You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or past.
-Richard Bach

100. Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
-Benjamin Disraeli

101. “The most unhappy people are the ones who fear change.”
-Mignon McLaughlin

102. ‘As with anything creative, change is inevitable.”
-Enya

103. “What we achieve in the interior changes our reality.”
-Plutarch

104. “People are always looking for the magic bullet that will change everything. There is no magic bullet.’
-Temple Grandin

105. “Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world.”
-Nelson Mandela

106. “Act the way you’d like to be and you’ll soon be the way you’d like to act.”
-Bob Dylan

107. “Nobody wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven do not want to die. However, death is the fate we all share. No one has escaped her. And so it should be, because death is the best invention of life. It is the agent of change of life. Clean the old to make way for the new.”
-Steve Jobs

108. “Music can change the world because it can change people.”
-Bono

109. “Either way the change will come. It may be bloody or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”
-Arundhati Roy

110. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
-Carol Burnett

111. “Remember: a book, a pencil, a child and a teacher can change the world.”
-Malala Yousafzai

112. “Negative emotions such as loneliness, envy and guilt play an important role in a happy life; are big signs that something needs to be changed.”
-Gretchen Rubin

113. “Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.”
-Barbara Januszkiewicz

114. “It’s not that some people have willpower and others do not. It’s just that some people are prepared to change and some are not.”
-James Gordon

115. “Change is what people do when they have no other choice.”
-Holly Black

116. “The change begins when someone sees the next step.”
-Unknown

117. “Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, the leaders change things.”
-Jesse Jackson

118. “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make of it.”
-Marco Aurelio

119. “Character is not something you were born with and you can not change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you were not born with and you should take responsibility for training.”
-Jim Rohn

120. “If life changes, we can also change the world.”
-Yoko Ono

You have to change you first before you change everything you do not like in life.

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