Browsing Quotes With Tag: change (24)
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 01 Feb 2017 at 7:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Speaker: Winston ChurchillPosted: 01 Feb 2017 at 7:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Speaker: Richard Buckminster FullerPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Rule #1: If you’re trying to get out of a hole, stop digging.
Speaker: Leo BabautaSource: Thriving on LessPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we try to change without first accepting who we are, we risk creating more false images of ourselves. But if accept ourselves for who we are at this very moment, we change because we want to grow and evolve with life. Love is no longer the condition for change, it is the starting point for change. This is the true meaning of unconditional love.
Speaker: Miguel Ruiz Jr.Source: the Five Levels of AttachmentPosted: 24 Jan 2014 at 12:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 09 Dec 2013 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The point is not to change
ourselves… It’s about befriending who we are already.Speaker: Pema ChodronSource: Hurry Up and MeditatePosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 05 Apr 2011 at 7:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The objective of those who give criticism is to change the one being criticized…but instead of changing them, it kills them.
Speaker: (paraphrased) Dr. John L. LundSource: Education WeekPosted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one will change a person who is unwilling to change. Not even fear of death by cancer will stop the smoker who is unwilling to change. People don’t change people. People change themselves or are changed by the Holy Ghost.
Speaker: Dr. John L. LundSource: Education Week 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own … You can’t clear your own fields while you’re counting the rocks on your neighbor’s farm
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 01 Jan 2010 at 1:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all – plus c’est la meme chose, plus ca change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
Speaker: MachiavelliSource: The PrincePosted: 18 Aug 2009 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way.
Speaker: Edith WhartonSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you wanted to fly from New York to Tel Aviv in Israel but made a one-degree change north, you’d end up in Moscow.
Speaker: Sean CoveyPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!