Change
338 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 285 from other voices.
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- Change is terrifying, until you do it. Then it’s just your new normal.Mark MansonCommonly attributed
- Change is the end result of all true learning.
- Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.Audre LordeCommonly attributed
- Change isn’t easy, but it’s possible and it’s worth it. And you are capable of it.
- Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
- Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
- Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
- Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
- Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
- Changing and actually improving are two quite different skills.
- Changing and improving your life requires you to destroy a part of yourself and replace it with a newer, better version. Growth is therefore, by definition, painful to some degree.
- Character is not cut in marble--it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
- Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have trying to change others.
- Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.
- Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
- Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
- Don’t get comfortable. Take risks. Change. Try learning about a field you don’t know anything about. Or stepping into a viewpoint you’ve never considered.
- Don’t spend your precious time asking “Why isn’t the world a better place?” It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is “How can I make it better?” To that there is an answer.
- Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.
- Don’t wait for change. You change.
- Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
- Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
- Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
- Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.
- Every moment is a fresh beginning.
- Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.
- Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Everything changes when we give ourselves permission to be more selective in what we choose to do.
- Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.
- Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- Fear of change is a human instinct. Embracing change is a superhuman ability.
- Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
- For he who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.