Change Quotes - Page 8

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Everything changes, even stone.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.