Quotes for changes: Making them and living through them

By , on October 20, 2006

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.”
–Emerson

Success is get­ting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
–Dale Carnegie

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
–Arthur Schopenhauer

Different is not nec­es­sarily better but better is always dif­ferent.”
–Hugh Lendrum

You often meet your des­tiny on the road you’ve taken to avoid it.”

Imagination is the begin­ning of cre­ation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
–George Bernard Shaw

Don’t believe every­thing you think.”

It is not the strongest of the species who sur­vive, not the most intel­li­gent, but those who are the most adap­tive to change.”
–Charles Darwin

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to con­trol the future.”
–Lester Levinson

Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll under­stand.”
–Confucius

Nearly all men can stand adver­sity, but if you want to test a man’s char­acter, give him power.”
–Abraham Lincoln

Everything that irri­tates us about others can lead us to an under­standing of our­selves.”
–Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks out­side, dreams, who looks inside awakes.”
–Carl Jung

Wisdom is knowing what path to take next… Integrity is taking it.”

Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY.”
–Mahatma Gandhi

Criticism is some­thing we can avoid easily — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
–Aristotle

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
–William Jennings Bryan

When I despair, I remember that all through his­tory, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and mur­derers, and for a time they seem invin­cible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.”
–Mahatma Gandhi

To be your­self in a world that is con­stantly trying to make you some­thing else is the greatest accom­plish­ment.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
–Mark Twain

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.”

It’s easier to fight for one’s prin­ci­ples than to live up to them.”
–Adler

The greatest decep­tion men suffer is from their own opin­ions.”
–Leonardo da Vinci

When we are no longer able to change a sit­u­a­tion… we are chal­lenged to change our­selves.”
–Victor Frankl

There is only one thing more painful than learning from expe­ri­ence and that is not learning from expe­ri­ence.”
–Archibald McLeish

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
–Johann von Goethe

You don’t get in life what you want. You get what you are.”
–Les Brown

Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.”
–Shakti Gawain

If you think that edu­ca­tion is expen­sive, try igno­rance.”
–Derek Botz

He who asks is a fool for five min­utes, but he who does not ask remains a fools for life.”
–Chinese proverb

Opinions founded on prej­u­dice are always defended with the greatest violence.”

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other alter­na­tives.”
–Abba Eban

A nation that values it’s priv­i­leges above its prin­ci­ples soon loses both.”
–Eisenhower

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
–Euripedes

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.”
–Adolph Hitler

Those who make peaceful reform impos­sible will make vio­lent rev­o­lu­tion inevitable.”
–J. F. Kennedy

Injustice any­where is a threat to jus­tice every­where.”
–Martin Luther King

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”
–George Elliot

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember any­thing.”
–Mark Twain

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appre­ci­a­tion.”
–William James

Intuition is not con­trary to reason, but out­side the province of reason.”
–Carl Jung

Life is a daring adven­ture or it is nothing at all.”
–Helen Keller

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