Quotes About Change

Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.

Nothing shouts midlife crisis louder than driving a convertible.

And no, the hit records of your generation are not better than today's. As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

If you are thinking about making some adjustments in you life to allow you to help change the world, my heartfelt recommendation is not to spend too much time thinking about it. Just dive in.

Right now what I need to think about is what would be possible, not all the reasons I can't make a change.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is not Fatal, but Failure to CHANGE can be.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be. It

The past cannot change what is to come. The work that you do each and every day is the only true way to improve and prepare yourself for what is to come. You cannot change the past, but you can influence the future by what you do today." —

SEEK SIGNIFICANT CHANGE       ââ'¬Â¢ Never be content with performance or results.       ââ'¬Â¢ Remove all excuses for getting to the next level. Don't say "no"; ask

Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be

You and I must accept some accountability for future bloodshed if each and every day we don't do something in our own way to alleviate prejudice in ourselves or others.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

Everything changes, he thinks. The woman is gone and the world turns.

But it had grown into something else, something that thrilled me even as it frightened me, made me feel that I had finally cracked through the pane of smudged glass, broken the surface of the sea. I finally felt like something other than an observer in my life.

One can't quit working to better the world just because the world is old and set in its ways. The enormity of a job is no reason not to do the job.

We resonate with one another's sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I become a center of love and kindness in this moment, then in a perhaps small but hardly insignificant way, the world now has a nucleus of love and kindness it lacked the moment before. This benefits me and it benefits others.

There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water's waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds.