Quotes on Change For The Better

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.