Change Quotes - Page 82

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

Oh how we want to be taken and changed, want to be mended by what we enter.

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

If you don't change your approach than you will never change your results!

I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Vision with action can change the world.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.