Quotes About Change

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

As you grow older, Michael, you'll learn an important lesson—that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

It's not always wrong to quit. We should never hold onto a mistake just because we spent a lot of time making it.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promis.

The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors.

I don't believe society has ever grown more tolerant. It just changes targets.

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

We always assume that there's tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that's why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.

often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with.

The only promise of childhood is that it will end.

All great men are delusional. How else could they be crazy enough to think they could change the world?

you can take the man out of the evil, but can you take the evil out of the man?

Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.

Too many times we lose today's battles because we're still engaged in fighting yesterday's.

That's what hate does – it remakes us in its image.

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

That's the way we live our lives. We speed on, happily or not, in the same direction until we collide into something that alters our destination. Sometimes that collision hurts, sometimes it doesn't, but if we're lucky, love is that unbalanced force. Love. There is no greater force in the universe. Now if we'll only learn to stop getting out of its way.

Just seeing the sign brought pain. There was so much I would do differently. I read somewhere that too often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with. I could relate to that.

So if she left you because you suck, she still did you a favor." "How is that?" "Because no one is happy living in a sick relationship, whether they're the weak link or the strong one. And if you're the weak link, this is your chance to learn that." "What are you, a marriage counselor?" "No. I'm a weak link.