Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryant H. McGill

Changing yourself changes everything.

Bryant H. McGill

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

Cesar Chavez

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

Cesar Chavez

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Catherine Ponder

Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in.

Carl T. Rowan

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it..

Carl Schurz

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Al Gore

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

Charles Kettering

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Charles Kettering

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Kingsley

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Charles Darwin

I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.

Charles Darwin

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

Barry Gibb

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

Barack Obama

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Antonio Machado

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

Anwar Sadat

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Anwar Sadat

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

Bruce Lee

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Edmund Spenser

But times do change and move continually.

Edmund Spenser

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.

Edmund Burke

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Eckhart Tolle

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Eckhart Tolle

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Elijah Wood

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me

Robert Johnson

We live in a time of great change in how men and women see themselves and how they respond to life and to each other.

We have a pretty good defender to put on him. Zack played straight man and held him to 11 points (in the first meeting). I don't think we'll change up.

Conan O'Brien

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

Colin Quinn

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.

Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. 'Spare me the grim litany of the 'realist;' give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.