Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Ellerbee

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

Leo Tolstoy

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

Leo Tolstoy

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Leo Buscaglia

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Leo Buscaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Leo Buscaglia

Don't ever believe that you are going to be peaceful-life is not like that. When you are changing all the time, you've got to continue to keep adjusting to change, which means that you are going to be constantly facing new obstacles. That's the joy of living. And once you are involved in the process of becoming, there is no stopping. You're doomed! You're gone! But what a fantastic journey! Every day is new. Every flower is new. Every face is new. Everything in the world is new, every morning of your life. Stop seeing it as a drag!

Lee R. Raymond

The competitive instinct is what I think drives organizations and people to become better and better. It can promote change toward progress and development, which is good for everybody. It can be the motivating force behind improvement in our social well-being that is far beyond anything we might have imagined on our own.

Lady Gaga

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

Leonard Bernstein

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Karl Pilkington

I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.

Molly Ringwald

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life

Minoru Yamasaki

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

Pema Chodron

Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.

Phil Crosby

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Phil Crosby

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

Phyllis Bottome

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

Phyllis Bottome

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

Phyllis Bottome

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Philip Pullman

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

Rabindranath Tagore

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Maggie Stiefvater

Nothing had changed. Nothing.

Haruki Murakami

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Hamid Karzai

I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan.

Gustav Stresemann

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

Greg Behrendt

For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.

Greg Behrendt

Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

John Leo

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

Joseph Lowery

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.