Quotes about Change
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
- William Hazlitt
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
- William James
Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas
- William James
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
- William James
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
- William James
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
- William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
- William Jones
There is no standing still, Life goes on, and is always bringing forth its Realities, which Way soever it goeth.
- William Law
We often charge Men, both in Church and State, with changing their Principles; but the Charge is too hasty; for no Man ever did, or can change his Principles, but by a Birth from above.
- William Law
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
- CS Lewis
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.
- George Whitefield
God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!
- Beth Moore