Change Quotes - Page 33

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

Even God cannot change the past.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.