Best 6456 quotes in «change quotes» category

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don't agree with you, those who make your life feel uncomfortable, don't come into your experience, because your vibration-through your practice-has become so clear, so pure, so clean, so in keeping with what you want, that the world that revolves around you just feels like that. That's what you planned.

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

Great changes are easier than small ones.

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine.

Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

Habits change into character.

Having God as an identity marker is nothing but a label, a language, and a lifestyle. I'm a Christian. I talk like one. I act like one. But having God as an identity changer is so much more. It's lavish abandon to who God is and who He's made me to be. Holding nothing back!

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from nega­tive to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.

Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.