Question:

What are some change quotes?

Fear/Criticism

Take criticism in your stride - otherwise you'll trip and
fall flat on your face:
"To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
--Elbert Hubbard

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It
fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It
calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
--Winston Churchill

"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.
Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders
hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle."
--Dorothy Thompson

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning
that does the work."
--Mark Twain

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best
therapist."
--Gail Sheehy

Change #2

CHANGE

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity
we know our friends."
-- John Churton Collins, 1848-1908

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures
and tolerates your successes."
-- Doug Larson

"Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning;
enemy, never."
--Victor Hugo, 1802-1885

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he
advances through life, he will soon find himself
left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship
in constant repair."
-- Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson(James
Boswell 1791) 1755

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way
to have a friend is to be a friend."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, 1841

"Among true and real friends, all is common; and
were ignorance and envy and superstition banished
from the world, all mankind would be friends."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), "Essay on
Christianity," 1817

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy
conscience: this is the ideal life."
-- Mark Twain

"My best friend is the one who brings out the
best in me."
-- Henry Ford

"The friend who holds your hand and says the
wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one
who stays away."
-- Barbara Kingsolver (1955 - ) High Tide in Tucson:
Essays from Now or Never, 1996

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."
-- unknown

"Consistency is the last refuge of the
unimaginative." -- Oscar Wilde

"Time is neutral and does not change things. With
courage and initiative, leaders change things."
-- Jesse Jackson

"Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting
if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if
he misses the first section of a revolving door."
-- Simeon Strunsky

"I thought I could change the world. It took me
a hundred years to figure out I can't change the
world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that
ain't easy either."
--Bessie Delany

"It is a secret, both in nature and state, that it
is safer to change many things at once."
-- Francis Bacon, "Of Regiment of Health,"
Essays, 1625

"Change is the progress by which the future
invades our lives."
-- Alvin Toffler, introduction to Future Shock,
1970

"Change is constant."
-- Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh,
Scotland, 29 October 1867

"A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally
indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that
which is good."
-- John Foster Dulles (1888-1959)

"Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-- James Baldwin

Change

"It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting." -- Millard Fuller (founder of Habitat for Humanity)

"You are what you think about all day long." -- Dr. Robert Schuller

"What the mind of a man can conceive and believe the mind of a man can achieve." -- Napoleon Hill

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." -- James Allen

Positive Mistakes

"I made a mistake today. I made a mistake yesterday. I
think it's ... very important to ignore the negative."
--Jerry Rubin

"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success.
What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing
persistence."
--Lisa M. Amos

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill

Deal with change

We are living in an exciting age of unprecedented change. Today's accelerated rate of change presents us with unique challenges and opportunities. When change brings success, keep your ego from getting out of hand. When the change is negative, use your sense of humor to get through it. Once you learn to handle change, you can take your skills, talents, and abilities and help others change. Let's look at four ways to enhance your mastery of change.

No. 1 Don't Fight It.
The natural tendency is to protect what you know and value, what has become familiar and comfortable. Unfortunately the world will change with or without you. So you must adapt again and again. You make your life so much more complicated when you fight the change. You cause yourself stress and can actually become ill. Remember the old Serenity Prayer: 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.

No. 2 You Don't Have to Like the Change.
No one ever said you have to like the changes you are experiencing. However, you do have to understand them so you can progress. Study, explore, and read everything you can about the current matters that affect your perception and handling of change. Life is not always about "liking". It is about doing the best you can, with what you you've got and getting on with it--right now!

No. 3 Know What to Defend Against Change.
There are some things we should resist changing because change does not always translate into better. Change for the sake of change alone can destroy valuable situations, assets, and relationships. Many values deserved to be defended. Ask yourself what you will change and what you will defend.

No. 4 Have a Sense of Humor.
Humor can give you a momentary "emotional vacation." A sense of humor can conquer pretense, and diffused anger and hostility.