
Top 100 Expect Change Quotes
#1. Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.
Fred Rogers
#2. This too shall pass." It confirms that you can and should expect change and Uncertainty as a natural part of your life experience because nothing (and no thing) lasts forever. The sooner you learn this life lesson, the less you shall suffer.
Dennis Merritt Jones
#3. "It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."
Charles Dickens
#4. Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.
Rachel Kushner
#5. Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if you frequencies don't match.
Rhonda Byrne
#6. Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.
Tony Robbins
#7. I suppose I would be wiser to adjust my attitude rather than to expect the universe to change reality.
David Drake
#8. It is not wrong to change in order to achieve certain goals in life. If you want a happy relationship, for example, you can't expect luck to bring it. You can't have something that implies you without being yourself there.
Robin Sacredfire
#9. When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.
Darren Hardy
#10. Just become a little alert and start the change from your side; don't expect it from the other side. It will begin from the other side, too. And it costs nothing to smile, it costs nothing to love, it costs nothing to share your happiness with somebody you love.
Osho
#11. You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.
Kendrick Lamar
#12. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?
Alicia Kobishop
#13. My accent is of African ancestry and so is my origin and I have no intention to change any of it. Therefore nobody should expect me to fraudulently behave as if I was anything else.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#14. Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
Joan Wallach Scott
#15. I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#16. Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.
Rod Dreher
#17. So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.
Ginni Rometty
#18. The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end.
Michael Boatman
#19. Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.
Dean Koontz
#20. In navigating change, some of us take temporary actions and expect to obtain
permanent results.
Ngina Otiende
#21. Every time you examine your thoughts you'll notice that whatever you're upset about is rooted in a past you cannot change or a future that may turn out to be completely different from what you expect. You may as well let the past or the future go and do your best at whatever you're doing now.
Mo Gawdat
#22. Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.
Rupert Murdoch
#23. I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.
Wietse Venema
#24. To expect a convict to have the strength to give up smoking is to expect a leopard to change his spots, become vegetarian and learn to knit, all on the same day.
Stephen Fry
#25. We clutch that picture to our hearts because we expect each other to always be the people in that picture. But people change. People aren't pictures. And you can either take a new picture or throw the old one away.
Pleasefindthis
#26. You can't be hungry."
"You keep saying that like you expect my answer to change.
Shelly Laurenston
#27. Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
Ovid
#28. Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.
Al Siebert
#29. All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can't expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.
Dalai Lama
#30. Things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.
Lesley Kagen
#31. I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.
Nick Minchin
#32. Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you in certain ways.
Martin Villeneuve
#33. You might expect a death in the family to change people or bring them around, but ... . If you'll let me give you one last photo lesson: it's the shadows that define things.
Douglas Wynne
#34. You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.
Florynce Kennedy
#35. Don't expect to achieve your best
while you expect the worst.
Change your attitude and be
a little more positive.
Great things are coming your way.
Be patient.
Leon Brown
#36. Accountability is not a consequence. In order for it to become your competitive advantage, you must be willing to change what you expect from yourself and others.
Sam Silverstein
#37. You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.
Jacque Fresco
#38. Love is Letting go of fear
Love itself Remains constant
only the particular body from whom we sometimes expect it may change
Gerald G. Jampolsky
#39. It was about acceptance, he thought. About realizing no one is perfect and no one can expect to change someone else. Which
Cammie McGovern
#40. Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.
Jakaya Kikwete
#41. A man living in a place that doesn't change doesn't expect it ever will.
Lauren Groff
#42. Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
Tim Ferriss
#43. It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
Aaron Sorkin
#44. I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
Harold Brodkey
#45. I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.
Chuck Palahniuk
#46. Personalities change when you least expect them
G.M.
#47. Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.
Susan Estrich
#48. You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.
Jessica Sorensen
#49. You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette Davis
#50. Change can be terrifying, but I've come to expect that God has an even greater adventure awaiting me than the one I leave behind.
Toni Sorenson
#51. Times change, and people change with the times - the wise ones do. Wisdom lies in knowing when to remember and when to forget. Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.
Ayn Rand
#52. Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#53. Your partner is your deepest mirror: do not expect them to change. Healing yourself, you heal your relationship.
Human Angels
#54. For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#55. Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.
Steve Ballmer
#56. Don't expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim.
Sharon Gannon
#57. -but what people expect can change you in the end.
Justin Go
#58. Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change.' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change
I want to continue as president.' Every candidate has got to say 'change.' That's what the American people expect.
George W. Bush
#59. And I don't expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We're not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.
Ann Aguirre
#60. I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions; everyone has contradictions. So I don't expect anyone to look at me differently.
Michael Rapaport
#61. Life gives you what you expect, what you are prepared to put up with or can change.
Steven Redhead
#62. Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
Richard Rohr
#63. You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
Les Brown
#64. View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.
Denis Waitley
#65. We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
Norman Vincent Peale
#67. When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.
Nancy Werlin
#68. Accept the children the way we accept trees - with gratitude, because they are a blessing - but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.
Isabel Allende
#69. Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.
Rand Olson
#70. You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.
Mike Jackson
#71. Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.
Diane Meier
#72. My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.
George Washington
#73. Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people.
Debasish Mridha
#74. We cannot expect to grow if we are too afraid or unwilling to change and face challenges. When we exit our everyday, mundane lifestyles to do something different we can experience growth, undiscovered strength, and new abilities within ourselves.
Ashley Ormon
#75. If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.
Melody Beattie
#76. The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.
Nikki Haley
#77. If you cannot change, why you expect others to change?
Goran Spasa
#78. We expect the Taiwan authorities publicly to correct the record and unambiguously affirm that the February 27 announcement did not abolish the National Unification Council, did not change the status quo, and that the assurances remain in effect.
Joseph Adam Ereli
#79. Things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.
Lesley Kagen
#80. We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#81. That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us.
John Corey Whaley
#82. I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?
Denis Leary
#83. As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.
Malcolm Gladwell
#84. First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.
Dalai Lama
#85. I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.
Deion Sanders
#86. You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.
Hanif Kureishi
#87. When you succeed in life, You cannot be sure till you reach at the point you expect.
Auliq Ice
#88. When we make the unfamiliar familiar,make the unknown known,make the uncomfortable comfortable,and believe the unbelievable,
we can then
expect the unexpected.
Charles F. Glassman
#89. Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
Anita Borg
#90. Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
Jonathan Kozol
#91. Relationships are like flash floods, they happen when you least expect it. Can be as quick as lightning, and they change all that stand before it, and after it,"
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Cheryl Suchacek
#92. The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.
Thomas Malthus
#93. I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.
Gregory Maguire
#94. You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?
Mithun Chakraborty
#95. For us to expect development in our nations, we must first bring development to the minds and understandings of our people.
The change we quest for outwardly must first be attained inwardly.
Sunday Adelaja
#96. You do it for yourself. You don't expect to change the world. You don't even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can't not do it and be who you are. Or who you're meant to be.
Martin Sheen
#97. George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.
Donella Meadows
#98. Who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin."
" Whatever that means." He said.
" It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.
Orson Scott Card
#99. When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#100. Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren Bennis
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