Change Quotes

4 Don’t Die™ Principles:• Change your awareness and your perspective changes.• You teach what you need to learn.• You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you cannot do both.• Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

~ Andrea T. Goeglein

You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

~ Dean Koontz

The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

We're going to change. We're going to throw out what's worse in usand keep what's best. But come hell or high water, we three will sticktogether, all for one, one for all. We're going to grow, Cathy,physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not only that, we're going toreach the goals we've set for ourselves. I'll be the best damneddoctor the world's ever known and you will make Pavlova seem like anawkward country girl.

~ V.c. Andrews

Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the clock, and before that number changes, do one little thing to make it better. After you do, enjoy your moment of victory, and then do it again. In less than the time it takes you to blink, the past will burden you no more.

~ Dan Pearce

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.

~ George Alexiou

If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

~ Christmas Humphreys

No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down—for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite.

~ Toni Sorenson

It's funny, because I had thought, living through those first two months after the night at the lake, that the great crisis was about What I Was or Who I'd Become or What Terrible Thing Was Wrong With Me (and About to Go Wronger) and Why All Was Changed As a Result. But I was still struggling against the idea that all *was* changed.

~ Robin Mckinley

He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

~ Alex London

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is me?

~ Terry Pratchett

It was all right to be who he was, but others would probably think it was terrible. A couple of times in the past he'd reached this absolute zero of the truth, and without fear or bitterness he realized now that somewhere inside it there was a move he could make to change his life, to become another person, but he'd never be able to guess what it was.

~ Denis Johnson

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

~ Anne Lamott

It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.

~ Peter Adejimi

Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.

~ Larry Crabb

Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achieve either? And how long will it take me to realize that if I doggedly refuse to pass by God, my inadequacy is instantly irrelevant and I have in actuality begun to achieve these very things.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

What are humans meant to do, why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning, what is the meaning of human existence?

~ David W. Earle

We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic. - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

~ Jim Cookson

who would expect less? she said. You're a Wiggin. Whatever that means. He said. It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.

~ Orson Scott Card

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.

~ Elizabeth Blackwell

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Every soul has the potential of a great spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident

~ Tahereh Mafi

I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

~ Raymond Chandler

They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Don’t be afraid of change. Change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

~ Wilfred James Dolor

I miss my old life

~ Richard C. Morais

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

~ Edward Bellamy

Once I embraced the dreams that once inspired. Now I've found that there is too much I didn't recognize as a gift. I may be too late to see, cherish, and endure. I may never change, but be forever stuck in the past without realizing until my eyes open to the sun and I have forgotten the moon.

~ J.d. Stroube

You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of.

~ Mindy Mcginnis

My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

~ Emily Murdoch

I guess sometimes there are moments when people’s lives change and they don’t even know it. They can look back later, when everything's different, and say yes, that was the start of it―that’s when it all began, and I didn't even notice.

~ Robert Swindells

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

~ Jerome

My father used to say that when he was growing up the water was clear and there were tons of fireflies everywhere... He felt sorry for the kids growing up today... But it is really beautiful... Time will just keep on passing... we'll get old... and look back on the past. I hope we can always say... how great things were.

~ Fuyumi Soryo

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend.

~ Andrew X. Pham