Quotes About Lasting Change

#1. In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#2. As we progress through the Steps, we will discover that true and lasting change does not happen by trying to alter our life conditions. Although it is tempting to think so, outside adjustments cannot correct inside problems.

Friends In Recovery

#3. I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like myself. I have very high expectations for Obama, and I am extremely hopeful that he will bring great lasting change not just to America, but to the entire world.

Texas Battle

#4. Shop smarter and shop less. But please don't let that dissuade you from engaging in campaigns to make real lasting change.

Annie Leonard

#5. Truth is not negative. Truth helps us see things from a fresh perspective. Truth educates, creates awareness, and is the first step to initiating any real and lasting change.

Tonya Sheridan

#6. Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.

Millicent Fenwick

#7. If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers ... February is for doers -

Marc Parent

#8. The key to real and lasting change lies somewhere between what you know and what you do. It's what you think.

Lisa Oz

#9. If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#10. all lasting change is preceded by changed thinking.

Tommy Newberry

#11. Lasting change cannot occur without transformation of the heart.

Nathan W. Morris

#12. All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#13. If threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.

Paul David Tripp

#14. Lasting change requires new ways of thinking. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act. If you want to change how you act, you must begin by changing the way you think. Your thoughts are the autopilot of your life.

Rick Warren

#15. There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them?

Mark Dunn

#16. People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy.

Narendra Modi

#17. How then can you bring lasting change to your world? By building character and skill in the life of one person at a time. Then by enabling them to "pass it on"- to build the character and skill of another, and another,

Donald G. Doty

#18. Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

Eknath Easwaran

#19. Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.

Rinku Sen

#20. Believing in yourself is essential to creating lasting change and a happy life.

Tara Stiles

#21. Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

Darren Johnson

#22. Immature people want quick fixes; they are the all or nothing thinkers. Evolving adults know that lasting change means being committed to the small daily steps over the long-term, deliberate journey.

Shannon Tanner

#23. Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.

Myles Munroe

#24. All powerful and lasting change, whether in your personal life or your business, comes from the heart, not the mind.

Tonya Sheridan

#25. Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Jane Goodall

#26. Healing facilitates lasting change; change facilitates healing.

Sharon Weil

#27. We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.

Tamara Hill

#28. Of all the weapons the Europeans brought to the Pacific, guns included, none was more powerful and more capable of effecting lasting change than written language.

Laurence Bergreen

#29. I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication ... Not easy. There's an entire wall of products you need. You stand there going,"Well, this one is quick acting but this is long lasting ... Which is more important, the present or the future?"

Jerry Seinfeld

#30. External activities can't change us, says Jesus, because sin comes from within, from our hearts. Our rituals might change our behavior for a while, but they can't change our hearts. And so they can't bring true and lasting holiness. We need heart change.

Tim Chester

#31. You can read the Bible, and should, but until you study it, it doesn't come alive for you and teach you a lasting lesson.

Take time.
Study God's Word.
It will change you.

Gail Davis

#32. New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.

Elizabeth Thornton

#33. People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#34. The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.

John Adams

#35. Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions.' Recurring and consistent performance results from behavior change will lead to lasting changes in the way people feel, think, and believe in the long run.

Jon Katzenbach

#36. A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

Kelly Link

#37. Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

Bud Harris

#38. Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word
the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.

Philip Larkin

#39. From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change.

Pat Allwright

#40. All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.

Octavia E. Butler

#41. Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ludwig Borne

#42. Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of their own business plans as plans for good as well as profit. That's not such a big leap.

Darren Walker

#43. The humblest individual under heaven, Than might suffice a moderate century through. I knew that nought was lasting, but now even Change grows too changeable without being new.

George Gordon Byron

#44. I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.

Joseph Heller

#45. The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Leo Buscaglia

#46. We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

Norman Doidge

#47. I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change.

Marti Noxon

#48. Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.

Zicheng Hong

#49. 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

#50. It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

Bob Harper

#51. Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#52. Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

Alice Waters

#53. The promoters of change offer a grand vision of world unity. While the globalists and international affairs specialists continue their chant for "peace, peace," we are reminded that the Bible says that there can be no lasting peace until Christ returns. So the world remains restless and uncertain.

Billy Graham

#54. impact. Even on the phone you can hear a change in someone's voice or a pause to let you know how they are interpreting what you've said. In text, your mistake just sits there marinating on the other person's screen, leaving a lasting record of your ineptitude and bozoness.

Aziz Ansari

#55. When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.

Ed Greenwood

#56. A relationship should not be measured in months or years. It's the calibre of the memories that matter. Their impact, their permanence, and the degree to which they change you. I've had relationships lasting years I can now scarcely recollect, and hours with others that feel like infinities.

Beau Taplin

#57. Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in one's personal life, it is only subjective experience, not facts, that registers as real.

Penney Peirce

#58. Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first

Geneen Roth

#59. For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Tony Robbins

#60. Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

Arianna Huffington

#61. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

Octavia Butler

#62. But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

Eldridge Cleaver

#63. When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

Jim George

#64. Ceaseless change is an unreliable basis for lasting fulfillment.

Sam Harris

#65. No matter how you arrive at the awareness and belief that you've lived before and will live again, the most lasting healing benefit will be the change in your attitude. You are creating your future lives right at this moment, and every moment of decision-making.

Lianne Downey