Life Changing Quotations

Step by step and the thing is done.

The more we do, the more we can do.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream?

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

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

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it's going that day.

I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.

I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently,

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it has great power. It has the power to change lives. It has the power to convert. If you read it with an open heart, you will know that it is the word of God and that it is true.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.