Accepting Change Quotes:

People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

- Jean Monnet

source: Jean Monnet (1978). “Memoirs”

topic: People, Accepting, Accepting Change

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

- Ray Noorda

topic: Inspirational, Causes, Accepting Change

Accept change as a friend. And don't take yourself too seriously.

- Tom Peters

topic: Change, Accepting, Accepting Change

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

- Greg Bear

topic: Grief, Accepting, Inefficiency, Accepting Change

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

- Jim Rohn

source: FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 18, 2017

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Chances In Life

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

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Change, Powerful, Times Have Changed, Time And Change

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

- Alan Watts

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

topic: Motivational, Change, Moving On, Adaptability, Eye Opening

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Managing Time

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

topic: Life, Change, Spiritual, Way In Life, Natural Things

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

- Denis Waitley

topic: Change, Accepting, Unchangeable, Some People Never Change, Positive Change

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

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Time To Move On, Times Have Changed

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

- Anatole France

source: Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

topic: Life, Change, Spirituality, Resistance To Change, Times Have Changed

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

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Best Is Yet To Come, Waiting For Something

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Change, Chaos, Some People Never Change, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Change

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

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Thinking, Way, Live For Yourself, Good Thoughts, My Attitude

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

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

topic: Long, Progress, Sake, Better Ways, Accepting Change

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, When Things Go Wrong, Times Have Changed

Build what you want to see in the world.

- Jack Dorsey

topic: World, Want, What You Want, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

topic: Life, Motivational, Change, Social Progress, Man And Superman

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

source: Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

- Harold Wilson

source: Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

topic: Change, Teaching, Diversity, Managing Change, Resistance To Change

The key to change is to let go of fear.

- Rosanne Cash

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Letting Go, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

- John Gibbons

topic: Change, Life Changing, Darkness Within, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

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

- Michael Jordan

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

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wise, Inspirational Harry Potter, First Steps

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

topic: Change, Perfect, Worry, Managing Change, Transience

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Change, Welcome, Rulers, Starting Anew, Life And Change

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

- Washington Irving

topic: Change, Comfort, Relief, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Ambition, Men, Progress, Social Progress, Man And Superman

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

- Natalie Imbruglia

source: Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

topic: Reality, Insanity, Humorous Birthday, Hurting You, Gold Digger

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

- Arnold Bennett

source: Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Change, Moving On, Thought Provoking, Resistance To Change, Positive Change

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

- Carl Rogers

topic: Change, Appreciation, Self, Congruence, Radical Acceptance

Be the change you want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Change Management

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

topic: Inspirational, Change, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Times Have Changed

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

- Diane Keaton

topic: Thinking, Growth, Brain, Embrace Change, Accepting Change

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

- Joey Comeau

source: "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

topic: World, Want, Trouble, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

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

- Andre Gide

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

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

- Nathaniel Branden

source: Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.37, Hachette UK

topic: Change, Acceptance, Second Chance, Resistance To Change, Positive Change

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

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Wheel Of Life, Chinese Philosophy

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

- Washington Irving

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

topic: Change, Life Changing, People Changing, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing

Be the change you want to see in your networks

- James H. Fowler

topic: Want, Managing Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice, Live Life To Its Fullest

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

topic: Change, People, Want, Times Have Changed, Ready For Change

Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.

- Antanas Mockus

topic: Art, Creativity, People, Accepting Change

An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and the new behavior and actions that will naturally come as a result.

- Harold Klemp

topic: Mean, Feelings, Action, New Feelings, Accepting Change