Change Quotes - Page 4

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Every thought is a cause & every condition is an effect. Change your thoughts & you change your destiny.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

You can’t change someone’s behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.

I will either find a way or make one.

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

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.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.