Change Quotes - page 43

The habit which many have got into must be as far as possible corrected; those, I mean, who while they fight strenuously against the baser pleasures, yet still go on hunting for pleasure in the shape of worldly honour and positions which will gratify their love of power. They act like some domestic who longed for liberty, but instead of exerting himself to get away from slavery proceeded only to change his masters, and thought liberty consisted in that change. But all alike are slaves, even though they should not all go on being ruled by the same masters, as long as a dominion of any sort, with power to enforce it, is set over them. (Gregory of Nyssa)
People do not change, they are merely revealed. View quote
Anne Enright
There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen. View quote
Ann Rule
It's time to press the Reset button! Reset the vibration. Change your words to change the vibration. View quote
Michael Losier
The easiest way to buy silver was to take a paper dollar to the bank and ask for change. So much coinage was disappearing from circulation that the government was forced to remove silver from U.S. coinage beginning in 1965. View quote
Michael Maloney
What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia. View quote
Michael Scott
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself. View quote
Malcolm Mclaren
Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now. View quote
Manal al-Sharif
People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking. View quote
Marie Kondo
An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet. View quote
Mario Benedetti
Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it. (Markus Zusak)
Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose. View quote
Marla Gibbs
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding. View quote
Martha Beck
Anybody can change, but they have to want to change. View quote
Marshall Goldsmith
As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel. View quote
Melina Marchetta
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway? View quote
Mary Balogh
I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256) View quote
Mary E. Pearson
Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly. View quote
Andy Andrews
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. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change. (Mohsin Hamid)
If you are unable to change many aspects of your work, you must alter your mindset – learning to stop thinking about your work as boring or dull; viewing the glass as half full rather than half empty; finding the positives in your daily work and career. View quote
Nigel Cumberland
It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable. View quote
Naomi Campbell
People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. View quote
Ned Vizzini
Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch