Change Quotes

• I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

  

  Ntozake Shange
  • Live
  • Think
  • Write

• How quick we are to reject what others tell us! How fast we are to cast the blame on others, saying they always criticize us and find fault with us, they are not satisfied with anything we do, they do not understand us. But if we cannot accept anything others tell us, we are proud. The humble want to hear what others tell them. They have the courage to hear the truth about themselves and to admit that they need to change. Whether it is a small matter or a big matter, they say, "Yes, it is true. I need to turn over a new leaf.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Proud
  • Blame
  • Satisfied

• Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Character
  • Challenges

• It's good to talk, but their position has to change ... they know how to change, they know what they have to change.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Know
  • Change
  • Position

• Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change

• There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Change
  • Lives

• God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

  

  Betty Eadie
  • God
  • Mistakes
  • Teachers

• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Character

• Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything I would change about my life.

  

  George Dawson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Hear

• The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

  

  Susanna Kearsley
  • Past
  • Change
  • Teach

• To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Change
  • Role
  • Minds

• Our children change us... whether they live or not.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Children
  • Reality
  • Change

• Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.

  

  Sallust
  • Justice
  • Created
  • Arts

• When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me. It doesn't fall out of favor for me. I might have to move on because the universe is saying you can't make this right now. But I'm going to circle back and make it.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Change
  • Value
  • Story

• Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Change
  • Popular
  • Evolution

• You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

  

  Germany Kent
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Change

• I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions; everyone has contradictions. So I don't expect anyone to look at me differently.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • People
  • Change
  • Contradiction

• How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Change
  • Strange
  • Human Beings

• As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Change
  • Government
  • Opinion

• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  

  Melody Beattie
  • inspirational
  • Gratitude
  • Thanksgiving

• Part of what you hear when somebody says something awful to you is like, 'They're right, I look ridiculous, why am I dressed this way, I should go home and change.' For me that voice is always in my head, right around the corner.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Home
  • Voice
  • Dressed

• I would like it to be permanent. Unless it's absolutely, totally necessary, I'm not going to change it based on the opponent's starting lineup. I told the other guys, 'If one of you guys proves to me you should be in there, you're in there.' I think that will help our consistency a little if that fifth guy isn't a question as to who's going to be in.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Change
  • Permanent
  • Line Up

• Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Early
  • Late
  • Fails

• The problem is that real change takes a long time, while life hits us right away, now, with all its contradictions.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Problem
  • Hits
  • Contradictions

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