Top 1200 Life And Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.

I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.

Oceans need more attention because climate change IS an ocean issue. Our oceans will be the first victim, and sea life will suffer dramatically. Detailed proof is hard in ocean science, but I think we're already seeing big ocean changes caused by climate change, such as starvation of whales, seabirds, and other animals off the coast US west coast.

Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails

In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change....or die.

A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone' then you only impact the few and not the many.

I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can all help by making small changes in our lives to letting our voice be heard by our governing bodies. As has always been the case in this country, if the people demand change, it will come.

People change. They get successful and change. They get unsuccessful and change.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.

If you want to change an external part of your life, then you are first required to change the internal beliefs that hold these patterns in place. If you want others to respond to you or your work in different ways and with more appreciation, then examine your expectations for your work and your efforts. When you believe in yourself, chances are others will find your worth also.

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.

Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.

If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.

I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do – if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.

My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day and do the best that I can do.

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.

I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.

Becoming people of integrity and honesty does not occur quickly or all at once, nor is it merely a matter of greater personal discipline. It is a change of disposition, a change of heart. And this gradual change of heart is one that the Lord accomplishes within us, through the power of His Spirit, in a line-upon-line fashion.

I used to think you had to be very selfish, but as I get older my views on life change.

I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life.

Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death

Change is never fast enough to satisfy us. I still hear too many stories of women who go back to work too soon, but I do believe that we have been able to change the paradigm in attitudes towards family leave in that it's no longer a nice thing to do for women, it's a must do for competitiveness, and that's a big change over the last seven years. Changing it into an economic issue is a big sea change in the last seven years.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.