Quotes about Change

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

If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?

To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.

William James tells us that we cannot instantly change our emotions just by making up our minds to-but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person, My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Enough - the Centenarian's story ends; The two, past and present, have interchanged; I myself, as connector, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.

The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it.

Since you can't change the past, you may as well make the best of the present.

The electric bulb cannot give light without electricity. Likewise, you cannot change yourself if today you are cut off from Christ. If there be any change or difference in you, it is not because you yourself have changed, for all is in Christ. Such is the way of God's salvation.[2]