Top 1200 Accepting Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.

I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.

My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.

To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.

See, it's not until you start accepting who you are that you can really find success, or more importantly, happiness.

Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.

When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

Sometimes being your most authentic self involves accepting others for who they are.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

Accepting the apology signals the acknowledgment of a need to move forward, but not necessarily together.

We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?

I believe that society needs to be more open and accepting of things that are seen as 'different.'

If you happen to be in an environment where people are not accepting of who you are, you just need to know that's not always the way it will be.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

I grew up in an upper-income household, in an accepting environment, and with incredible educational opportunities.

Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.

Any sort of major change we want to make in our life is hard. Change is not easy and true change takes time and takes thousands, millions probably, of failures along that path and that's the interesting thing.

When I was 16 or 17 I knew I was gay, but knowing and accepting are two very different things.

I used to believe that you could change the culture or behavior of a company. I still believe it's possible, but it is at least a five to ten year process, if you are successful at all. More recently, I have been attracted to the ideas of the behavioralist, Edgar Schein. Schein has argued that you cannot change the culture of a company, but you can use the culture of a company to create change. It's an interesting approach to overcoming resistance. And if you can change how a company does its work, you might eventually be able to change how its people think.

Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

In America, I can just be glamorous, which is lovely. People are happy and accepting of exactly what it is I do.

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

I had to fool the world into accepting me. I didn't seem to fit the mould of my idols.

Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.

It's a common issue that you see out there, where some families aren't as accepting of what people choose to be in their life.

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.

Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience.

I have a track record of accepting my party's decisions. I do whatever work is given to me with determination. That's all.

As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

Accepting that my time with Arsenal was over was difficult because I never imagined leaving.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.