Change Quotes - Page 48

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Venezuela has changed forever.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.