Change Quotes - Page 31

If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

We are now running out of time.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.

What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.

With our thoughts we make the world.

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.

I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight or the foresight to comprehend the reason, but with time and patience it will come to light.

Change is such hard work.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.