Situation Change Quotes

#1. Re-position yourself.To change your situation change your position

Ikechukwu Joseph

#2. If you find the here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally ...

Eckhart Tolle

#3. In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Phil McGraw

#4. Don't try to change the situation. Change the mindset and the situation will change.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

Shinzo Abe

#6. The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

Ashly Lorenzana

#7. Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment

Nido R. Qubein

#8. You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

Nicolas Malebranche

#9. Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

Pope Francis

#10. Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

Gabrielle Reece

#11. Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn't likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change - the paralyzing part - is precisely in the details.

Chip Heath

#12. Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.

Doug Cooper

#13. Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation.

Shelley E. Taylor

#14. If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

Philip Zimbardo

#15. I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

James Lovelock

#16. Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#17. We can be a victim or a creator. One takes negative memories to use as a crutch, remain the same and blame. The latter takes negative memories accepting responsibility for choosing the situation to learn, evolve and change.

Juls Amor

#18. We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.

Ehud Barak

#19. Surely, then, this was a situation that merited the high-minded if somewhat sneering riposte of John Maynard Keynes: When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Kathryn Schulz

#20. People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the outcome of a situation.

Lisa M. Schab

#21. Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

Peace Pilgrim

#22. Accepting a situation doesn't mean you have to be okay with it. You can take steps to change things, but then you need to detach from the outcome & accept how things turn out. You keep doing your best & accept reality. If you keep getting upset over things you have no control over, you have no peace

Brenda Wilhelmson

#23. But when we ask Him to change them, He will. When we're angry, or upset for any reason, we're asked to say, "I'm angry but I'm willing not to be. I'm willing to see this situation differently." We ask the Holy Spirit to enter into the situation and show it to us from a different perspective.

Marianne Williamson

#24. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.

Sharon Salzberg

#25. Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.

Marianne Williamson

#26. Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation.

Simone De Beauvoir

#27. The most powerful thing in life...is our thinking, which has ability to change any situation."

Shashank Rayal

Sterna Kruger

#28. I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone to beat me.

Serena Williams

#29. It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

Wally Amos

#30. Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

Brene Brown

#31. In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

Ken Follett

#32. Though few would admit it, most of the time, when people are upset they don't actually want to feel differently, they want agreement and ways to make a situation, condition, or person change.

Lee L Jampolsky

#33. I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one's own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Dalai Lama XIV

#34. If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude toward it.

Abraham Low

#35. When we can no longer change a situation, its the time to changed our self.

Glenda Radores

#36. It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

Guy Finley

#37. We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.

Chris Barrie

#38. As long as you are alive and able to breath ... you are still able to change any situation around!

Timothy Pina

#39. Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.

Gay Hendricks

#40. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

#41. Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change." ...

Daniel Pinchbeck

#42. You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation.

Debasish Mridha

#43. Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence; ... to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Paulo Freire

#44. What does your future look like if you keep doing what you are doing? Are you happy with the end result? If you are not happy, then the good news is that no matter what the situation is, you can change it.

Michael Alden

#45. The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.

Klaus Kleinfeld

#46. As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Bill Crawford

#47. A good change leader never thinks, "Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people." A change leader thinks, "How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?

Chip Heath

#48. When it comes to seeking a change of heart, our starting place must include our present situation, with the people we live with right here and now. It is with these very people that we must learn to forgo all taking of offense.

C. Terry Warner

#49. And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

Chip Heath

#50. I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

Rahm Emanuel

#51. I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

Marcia Wallace

#52. Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city.

Jaime Lerner

#53. There is no stress. It is a misinterpretation of a situation. Just change your perception and stress will melt away.

Debasish Mridha

#54. Whether prayer changes our situation or not, one thing is certain: Prayer will change us!

Billy Graham

#55. deal with stress, you have two options: to change the situation or to change your attitude towards the situation.

Patrick Cogen

#56. The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if the current situation continues, then the world will not be able to handle this burden.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#57. Pain is essential for survival, pain is the tangible material that creeps into our mind and screams at us to recognize that something is terribly wrong.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#58. I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

Viggo Mortensen

#59. But ... If you hide the truth to keep Mika from suffering, the situation will never change, will it? I think real friendship would be to let him face his own suffering, and help him conquer it. Isn't that when he really needs you most?

Kaori Yuki

#60. The aim of language ... is to communicate ... to impart to others the results one has obtained ... As I talk, I reveal the situation ... I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#61. You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

Joanna Trollope

#62. But then once you get out and start to see your situation, I mean, from Godview, you know, when you can see the big picture, it kinda makes you wanna change things about yourself. Get intentional about life.

Tim Z. Hernandez

#63. If your attitude is one of gratefully searching for God's truth & goodness in any situation, it will change your life.

Stormie O'martian

#64. The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#65. Our situation is intolerable, but what's worse
is to sit here and do nothing.

Rita Dove

#66. We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.

William Bridges

#67. If I've learned anything in life, it's that it doesn't help to sit and play a situation over and over again in your head. You can't change the past, but you can shape the future with the right now.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#68. You have to accept the situation to be able to change it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#69. No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out.

James Shikwati

#70. I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation.

Kenna

#71. When you change your level of consciousness and awareness, the situation around you will change with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#72. Sometimes too much change, too fast, can be overwhelming. It makes you want to put things back the way they were, even if the old situation sucked.

Ann Aguirre

#73. Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

Viktor E. Frankl

#74. We choose how we'll look at things. We retain the ability to inject perspective into a situation. We can't change the obstacles themselves - that part of the equation is set - but the power of perspective can change how the obstacles appear.

Ryan Holiday

#75. Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.

Louise Hay

#76. For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

Paz Vega

#77. The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

Anatoly Karpov

#78. There is a lizard called the chameleon that, as you probably know, can change color instantly to blend into its surroundings. Besides being slimy and clod-blooded, Captain Sham resembled the chameleon in that he was chameleonic, a word means 'able to blend in with any situation.

Lemony Snicket

#79. To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

Tommy Chong

#80. There is nothing wrong with asking God to change a situation. But until it happens, you have to trust that where you are is where you should be.

Joel Osteen

#81. I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.

Sharon Draper

#82. When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

Lance Reddick

#83. When a condition or situation that the mind has attached itself to and identified with changes or disappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were being torn off your body.

Eckhart Tolle

#84. Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Ben Edwards

#85. You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Allen Klein

#86. No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#87. To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one.

L.R.W. Lee

#88. Bill collectors and harassing phone calls is enough to motivate some people to become successful. Maybe the pain is not great enough yet for you to act. Are you going to continue to feel sorry for yourself? On the other hand, are you ready to do what you need to do to change your situation?

Jon Jones

#89. Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change.

James Hansen

#90. Our peaceful hearts change the situation, disrupting the story in which hate comes naturally and offering an experience that suggests a new one.

Charles Eisenstein

#91. A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.

Chaka Khan

#92. To get rid of anger you can change the situation or change how you think about the situation.

Garrison Wynn

#93. Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Frank Knight

#94. When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop searching, assuming they can't be found, you guarantee they won

Angela Duckworth

#95. The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

C.S. Lewis

#96. Medication can make a bad situation tolerable and mask the need for change.

Julie Holland

#97. In the end I have to hold myself accountable ... I had to make a change if I really wanted to reach the goals I had set for myself. I had to get out of being comfortable and get into a situation that was going to really push me.

Kara Goucher

#98. Saying what the Father is saying releases the creative nature and Presence of God into a situation to bring His influence and change.

Bill Johnson

#99. In every situation, no matter what first appears. Find the good that is always there, and change that fear to cheer.

Julie Hebert

#100. It's all right to change your mind about a situation, even if it's in mid-course without fear that you're missing something. You know, if you're not there, it's not happening for you at that time. All you're doing is changing direction.

Art Hochberg