Change Quotes - Page 18

When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.

Change comes, when every person is adequately benefited.We keep hearing about “change.” Change will never come to all of society. Change can only come when the market system adequately provide all of the needs for all people. Millions are living in poverty in the United States and throughout the world, due to “change” passed them by, are struggling: Among them are high unemployment, the mentally challenged, poor education, many of them are homeless and hungry, sick and tired; such individuals, look for ways to move beyond their prison walls that hold them back from moving forward: Through the corridors of their prison, they observe the wealthy getting wealthier. They see the market system passing them at a fast rate of speed. Hope has long left the majority of them. There is a price that must be paid for the sins of those who have built these prisons.

All changes are born within.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.

The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch of others who are like them. Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity. If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success, you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares them. People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in their games, and that's it. You're always going to find them in the place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack.

The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.

The only permanent thing in this world is change.

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.

Change is your gateway to opportunity, opportunities will lead you to a new and fulfilling life.

When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations, effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change.

Yellow decided to risk for a butterfly.For courage she hung right beside the other cocoon and began to spin her own.'Imagine, I didn't even know I could do this. That's some encouragement that i'mon the right track. If I have the stuff inside me to make cocoons—maybe the stuff of butterflies is there too.

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

There is no "the way things are." Every day is different, and you live it differently.

We, human beings , are strong because we are capable of change .

So before we end and then beginWe'll drink a toast to how it's beenA few more hours to be completeA few more nights on satin sheetsA few more times that I can sayI've loved these days

Give people the chance to change.

When you care deeply about someone or something, repairs are worth your investment of time, energy, effort, heart, and resources. Whether it is to repair a broken trust or a damaged relationship, take the initiative to make it right and make it better.

People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.

Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!

When I hear and see young men like you and Troit, who have turned their lives around, it makes me feel good. We need to learn to love one another; there is just too much hate in this world. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by

Flaws.We all have them. BUT, they are all about perception. What I consider as a flaw may not be what someone else considers as a flaw. To me, a flaws is an imperfection or a fault in MY eyes. I consider my flaws to be things that I do not like about myself and things that I would like to change.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Develop the mindset that prompts you to continue pressing pass your norms - you'll begin to discover a whole new you.

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

A satisfied customer brings more customers.

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

change is a constant in life – maybe the only constant there is – and sudden change is not unusual. Thus an important inquiry is: How can I make change a friend rather than source of fear?

This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.

Growth-oriented performance demands sustained entrepreneurial efforts.

Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-

Curious how even a little time can alter so much.

Where you dare to venture where you have not gone before, you will return somehow changed.

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!

Many people associate resolutions with failure because they’ve broken promises to themselves so many times before. They don’t want to fail again, and as a result, they avoid setting goals. For the wise people who do set resolutions, research has shown you are ten times more likely to improve your life when you do. What are you willing to do to make your dreams come true?

Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward – your breakthrough may be just around the corner.

Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.

And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied ten-fold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid and more abiding than those which come to us in sleep, why then, for the space of an hour he sets free within us all the joys and sorrows in the world, a few of which only we should have to spend years of our actual life in getting to know, and the most intense of which would never be revealed to us because the slow course of their development prevents us from perceiving them. It is the same in life; the heart changes, and it is our worst sorrow; but we know it only through reading, through our imagination: in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

How things change,’ I say, ‘how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.

So long as you are in God's hands, He will not throw you away. God cannot drop you for you to be ashamed.

If you can't be the change, you can set an example for change. If you can't set an example for change, you can go and sleep! By all means, you can do something!

Change doesn’t always mean instability, you know. Being dormant? Now that’s crippling, much worse than change.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

It’s such an amazing awakening to realize that nothing in this universe happens TO YOU, 100% happens FOR YOU.