Best 6456 quotes in «change quotes» category

Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

Vision with action can change the world.

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.

We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.

We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to become.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

We are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts.

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.