Change Is Hard At First Quotes

#1. A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Robin Sharma

#2. The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.

John Gay

#3. When Love and Life first meet, a radiant thing is born, without a shade. When the roads begin to roughen, when the shades begin to darken, when the days are hard, and the nights cold and long - then it begins to change.

Olive Schreiner

#4. I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

David Lynch

#5. All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my jobs, and not everybody has that choice. But I definitely, it's a family decision every time I take a job.

Matt Damon

#6. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

Mel Smith

#7. No, I'm not the first or last model of my type in this industry. You can make up all the reasons you think I am where I am, but really, I'm a hard worker that's confident in myself - one that came at a time where the fashion industry was ready for a change.

Gigi Hadid

#8. The first year holds trauma unlike any other. The second year is a time of learning hard lessons, facing harsh realities, understanding that you, alone, are responsible for the life change you must accept, the new life you must develop.

Shirley Reeser Mcnally

#9. I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

Elizabeth Strout

#10. Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.

Stephen Wolfram

#11. Not one thing we've done changes that we are his. That he created us and loves us with a love more fierce and loyal than any we will ever know. He isn't looking for perfection. He's looking for humble hearts that know we are nothing without his lavish grace.

Melanie Shankle

#12. The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.

John C. Maxwell

#13. To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Alonzo King

#14. Never ask how. At that moment, it felt like the wisest advice I had ever gotten.

Neal Shusterman

#15. It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

Tim DeChristopher

#16. Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Jerome

#17. Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

Cameron Dokey

#18. Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

William Wycherley

#19. That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.

Michael McKean

#20. I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.

Matt Dillon

#21. Seem like it be a mighty hard thing to change someone's mind," he said. "Most folks won't change their mind unless they have a change of heart first." "Well, then ... how do I change their heart?" "You can't, Missy Caroline," he said gently. "Only Massa Jesus can change folks' hearts.

Lynn Austin

#22. Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

Kristin Davis

#23. You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach!

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

Alain De Lille

#25. You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

Robin Sharma

#26. The meal plan was hard at first because I am a snack eater, but the most challenging part is trying to change my pallet to like healthy food.

Ruby Gettinger

#27. When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

Adam Ant

#28. Before you can brighten the corner where you are, you must first develop dislike for the initial dull corner you once endured. You can't change what you are comfortable with.

Israelmore Ayivor