Quotes about Change

Instead of complaining about what you don't like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves.

Habits, such as your self-confidence, enthusiasm, initiative, and persistence. When you change these habits, you make profound changes that will have a major influence on everything you do and how successful you will be.

The river never changes. it may alter it's path a bit, but it never changes. It's us who change. We come back here and we're are different. Not it. Form can't be extracted from the essence like some broth reduction. This river's taught me a good bit. Probably why I don't leave here. It winds, weaves, snakes around. Rarely goes the same twice. But, in the end, it always ends up in the same place and the gift is never the same. ...it's the journey that matters.

Remember that this week. You have never lived the seven days in front of you, and you will never live 'em again. Life is like a coin. Spend it any way you want to, but you can spend it only once. God would like you to learn from your experience in the wilderness. He wants to change your appetite, change your habits, change your style and, in the process, change your entire life.

We see the same scenario all too often today. People are told the good news of salvation by grace alone, only to respond with, "That's too simple. Where's the dignity? Where's the effort? If it's all that life changing, surely something sacrificial is required of me!

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitaable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

And God has this funny way of stretching and changing and pushing us toward things we don't want to face. I don't think the past is something we deal with as much as it deals with us.

She looked up at him. She could remember holding him on her lap, reading a story, kneeling down beside him. Then came the years she spent on her knees because she was concerned how he might turn out. Those years were long gone.

Lord, You know that Tony is not the man I want him to be. He's not the man You want him to be. So I'm putting him right at the top here.

You can influence Tony. You can pray for him and ask God to work in his heart. You can love him with the kind of love only God can give you. But you can't make decisions for him. You can't change him. You can only allow God to change you. You can change the way you think about him and yourself and God. You can believe the truth about the power of God and join Him in what He wants to do.

He thanked God for the chance to change, the chance to be part of his family, the chance to love and be loved and make mistakes.

I see some people stay in one place because it's convenient or it's comfortable. But they're missing out on their passion.