Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.