Quotes About Change

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

The past does not define, you the present does.

At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.

Dozens of articles took aim at pundit Malcolm Gladwell after he dismissively wrote in the New Yorker: "Please. People protested and brought down governments before Facebook was invented.

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us –- not someone like the rest of the world –- if we are to have any godly influence on them.

A believer who has been giving in to the pull of his sinful heart never learns the extent of its power over him until he begins to do right. It is very much like the experience of one who is rowing a canoe. As long as he is going with the current, he has no idea how strong the current really is. Only when he decides to turn his canoe around and start rowing against the current does he experience its true strength.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago

bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days.

The day he is out of baseball will be the day he starts to think about what comes next. By then, it may be too late.

Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Human things have long since jumped the shark.

The person you see is the person you will be.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

The mood has changed. It's heavier. We were liquid; now we're stones.

And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your face against it.

You can't look back. You can't dial up euphoria on demand, or try to recreate what happened a quarter century ago. You move forward and you live your life and try to be a better person every day than you were the day before. You take each day as a new journey, even as you are grateful for the ones you have already had.