Accepting Change Quotes

They're willing to accept changes on the part of the U.S. that contribute to more money entering Cuba so they can benefit. But in terms of political changes on the island, an opening, etc., that won't happen, that won't change, and I've always said that, from the beginning. I've even said that it doesn't matter how many tourists who to Cuba, how many times the President visits Cuba; there won't be any changes in the Cuban government's posture. And that is the same as always.

Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.

Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.

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

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting 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.

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.

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.

Be the change you want to see in your networks

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

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

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.

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

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

Be the change you want to see.

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

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

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

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

The key to change is to let go of fear.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Build what you want to see in the world.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

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

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

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

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

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.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

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

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

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

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.

Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.

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

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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.

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.