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15 Change Quotes

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts

You have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher

When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. – Patrick Overton

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein

change quotesSo keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. – Marilyn Monroe

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. –Maya Angelou

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett

25 Quotes on Bold

1. “Be bold when others are scared.”-Thomas J. Powell

2. “We’re getting really bold now. We’ll just go right up to someone and ask them.” –Christine Richerds

3. “We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.” –Angela Hunt

4. “I knew I had to do something bold to get myself noticed.” –Kathleen Hynes

5. ” Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

6. “Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.” –Herbert Spencer

7. “Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered, … We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.” –Mary Landrieu

8. “The Bold and the Beautiful.” –Eddie Cibrian

9. “Fortune befriends the bold.” –Emily Dickinson

10. “Freedom lies in being bold.” –Robert Frost

11. “Boldness be my friend.” –William Shakespeare

12. “How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.” –William Wordsworth

13. “Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.” –Alan Alda

14. “Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.” –Brad Henry

15. “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”-Isaac Newton

16. “Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.” –Anthony Storr

17. “Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.” –Matt Blunt

18. “Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.” –Voltaire

19. “Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. –Aristophanes

20. “Freedom lies in being bold.” –Robert Frost

21. “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.” – Sigmund Freud

22. “Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold move which by definition, cannot be planned.” – Ross Johnson

23. “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

24. “It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. “The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness.” –Victor Hugo

Funny Anonymous Quotes

It isn’t homework unless it’s due tomorrow.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

Never interrupt your opponent while he’s making a mistake.

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.

Every rule has an exception. Especially this one.

You never learn anything by doing it right.

funny anonymous quotesExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

The real trouble with reality is that there’s no background music.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

You can’t be late until you show up.

War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Nothing is impossible, means it is impossible to find something impossible, here comes the contradiction…

Les Paul Quotes

I have younger friends who don’t work, and they aren’t doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

I used my mother’s radio as a PA system. I’d take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

Les Paul QuotesI Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever.

One minute we’re over here, the next minute we’re doing something completely different. But it’s interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn’t do with analog.

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn’t go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

Life Quotes

There are a lot of people who wrote things about life. Let me show you what some of them tell us. Some wonderful life quotes just for you. Enjoy!

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. – Salma Hayek

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced. – Edward Norton

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. – Deepak Chopra

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. – Ann Landers

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. – Agnes Turnbull

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Bible

Life QuotesThe art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. – Bernard M. Baruch

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John Gardner

Life is a progress, and not a station. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. – Vernon Howard

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. – Tom O’Connor

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. – Henry James

Keep breathing. – Sophie Tucker

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have. – Rhonda Britten

Go ahead with your life, your plans…. Don’t waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started. – Richard L. Evans

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. – Elizabeth Bowen

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. – Katharine Hespburn

Beauty Quotes

“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.” – Sara Teasdale

“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy

Beauty Quotes“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” – Adlai E. Stevenson

“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they’re actually beautiful.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.” – Don Williams, Jr

“I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.” – Sarah McLachlan

“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder” – Kinky Friedman

“She’s beautiful, and therefore to be woo’d She is a woman, therefore to be won” – William Shakespeare

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone” – Dorothy Parker

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love” – Rabindranath Tagore

Top 20 Henry Ford Quotes

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” – Henry Ford

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” – Henry Ford

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.” – Henry Ford

Henry Ford Quotes“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” – Henry Ford

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” – Henry Ford

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” – Henry Ford

“There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can” – Henry Ford

“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.” – Henry Ford

“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” – Henry Ford

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford

“When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves”- Henry Ford

“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.” – Henry Ford

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” – Henry Ford

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford

“There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.” – Henry Ford

Get Over Yourself Quotes

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. – Les Brown

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. – The Buddha

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. – Norman Vincent Peale

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. – Wayne Dyer

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. – Oprah Winfrey

Get Over Yourself Quotes

Get Over It Quotes

My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. – The Movie Forrest Gump

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your  dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. – Oprah Winfrey

Get mad, then get over it. – Colin Powell

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – The Buddha

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mohandas Gandhi

Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Life’s too short to be anything… but happy. – Anonymous

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell

Get over It QuotesSelf-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. – Lee Iacocca

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember. – Anne Sullivan

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on. – Bill Cosby

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. – William James

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means moving on. – Anonymous

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs. – Dick Raymond

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross