Change Quotes

You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of.

My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

Are you so dead inside you don't feel the daily anguish, terror and deathly suffering of millions? What happened to you? You've changed.

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

Every declaration we make is like a seed planted, whose harvest we can't possibly foretell.

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering

When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

Let your experience be not one of failure but one that has taught you new things which you would not have known had you not tried

Because human nature never changes.

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.

There are times in life when the best part of our life and the worst part seemingly coincide, especially those periods that demark commencement of significant personal transformation.

Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

The moment you believe your experience is caused by other people, you are giving them your power.

As soon as you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.

As you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the outcome of a situation.

Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change.

I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.

Remember, you are the same today as you will be in five years, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Choose both carefully.

It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you.

changing lives started with changing my own.

Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.That is how you change the world.

When all humans have self-love, wouldn’t it be heaven on earth?

Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.

BLUE, THE colour of the sky, of the ocean, of certain stars and planets and the hue of the bluest eyes you have ever seen.

The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

Owning a drone does not a pilot make.

The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.

If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.

Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.

The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.

To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new.

I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing grace.

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

Because change creates opportunity, when we do it through purpose and awareness, we are working with the fates, and in turn they smile upon us.

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don’t like where your story is headin’, you fight your fate with everything you have.

We can't change what is coming. Something is always coming.

Life follows a rhythm and we hold the drum.

If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.