Change For The Better Quotes - Page 5

• Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Our World, Voice

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

  John Wesley

  Instruction, Wiser, Willing

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.180

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• It's good to be aware that a certain amount of fear is going to accompany every change in your life - a change for the worse or a change for the better. Knowing this can stop you from moving into fear about Change Itself. If you start fearing change generically you could wind up shrinking from ever making any kind of change at all for the rest of your day - even a change that obviously should be made for your own good.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Knowing, Wind

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 09, 2015

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• Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Opportunity, Men, Sometimes

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• I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates that we can walk with our eyes wide open straight into sheer destruction if there is a profit on the way-and that seems to me to be what we are doing now. I have no great expectation that human cussedness will somehow be quickly modified and turned into generosity or that humanity's care of the earth will improve much. But I do go around planting trees on the campus.

  Joseph Sittler

  Believe, Eye, Generosity

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• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Self, Would Be

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

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• It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Cameras, Sometimes, Happens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

  Thomas Keating

  World, Maps, Creation

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution.' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Change, Moving, One Direction

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 31, 2016

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• I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a Godlike state.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Exercise, Quality

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• And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.

  Patrick Ness

  Mean

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• Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.

  Cameron Dokey

  Mind, May, Breathe

  Cameron Dokey (2011). “Belle: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast"”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

  Mike Dooley

  Long, Obsession, Instant Gratification

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• Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Taken, Cutting

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.

  Ryan Winfield

  World, Spirit, This World

  Ryan Winfield (2014). “Jane's Melody: A Novel”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• All I can promise the supporters of Reading is that I come in here and give 100%, I try to get the team successful on the pitch, and we try to do that as quickly as possible. The Championship is a league that can very quickly change and we hope to change for the better.

  Steve Clarke

  Team, Reading, Successful

  Source: thetilehurstend.sbnation.com

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• The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

  Alan Greenspan

  Numbers, Needs, Credit

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• Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Regret, Past

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Lilian Cheung (2010). “Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

  Christofer Drew

  Thinking, Animal, World

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• But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Fighting, People

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.

  Shelley Winters

  Process Of Change, Life Is, Constant

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• Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Jobs, Passion, Earth

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

  Chris Prentiss

  Giving Up, People, Speak

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.108, BookBaby

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• It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance of the status quo, a potential threat to peoples vested interests in their jobs, and an upset to established ways of doing things. For these reasons, needed reorganization is often deferred. With a resulting loss in effectiveness and increase in costs.

  Marvin Bower

  Change, Jobs, Mean

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• Market leaders continually chart the changing waters.

  Peter Barron

  Change, Market Leaders, Water

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