Making Changes Quotes

Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change -- without fear.

I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.

You can make changes in your life and you can say, "I'm going to be a better parent next year than I am right now," or, "I'm going to take an extra step in my career and not just be satisfied where I am." So it has a lot to do with our will, but also we have to work as well.

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.

I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

I never drop a player I only make changes.

We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.

The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need to put our efforts - if we want to think long-range and invest in the community so that we don't have to, you know, invest in prisons - into making a change, because I know that the library can make a change in a life, because it made a change in mine.

Whatever aspect of life you apply it to, making change takes courage.

If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and...art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

As soon as a Democrat or a liberal organization opens their mouth and says "We want to see this," it's going to go over the heads. And same way on the abortion debate, if they want to make a change, it is not going to come from a Republican, it's going to have to come from a Democrat.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.