University of Life Quotes Catalog - Page 6 of 40 - a curated list of all the best quotes about life and how to live it!

“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.” – Kurt Lewin

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.” – Shannon L. Alder

“You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.” – Orrin Woodward

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.” – Orson Scott Card

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” – W. Edwards Deming

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”- Libba Bray

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”- Steve Maraboli,

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”- George Bernard Shaw

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.”- Andy Warhol

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”- Martin Luther

“Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.” – Esther Dyson

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”- Helen Keller

“Don’t confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”- Steve Maraboli

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”- Milton Berle

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”- Andy Warhol

“People can cry much easier than they can change.” – James Baldwin

“To change one’s life:
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly.
No exceptions.”
– William James

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”- Aldous Huxley

“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing is as painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”- Mary Shelley

“Sure, everything is ending,” Jules said, “but not yet.”- Jennifer Egan

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

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.” – Socrates

“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”- Socrates

“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.”- Rick Warren

“Next time you feel the urge to change someone, love them instead. Love changes people.” – Unknown

“Fear tricks us into living a boring life.” – Donald Miller

“The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.” – Alfie Kohn

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman

“We are all living in cages with the door wide open.” – George Lucas

“The only thing ‘wrong’ with you is fear.” – Shaun Roundy

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” – Henri Nouwen

You say that you love the rain, but open your umbrella when it falls. You say that you love the sun, but find a shady spot when it shines. You say that you love the wind, but close your windows against it. This is why I am afraid when you say you love me. – Qyazzirah Syeikh Ariffin

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on somebody else’s path.” – Joseph Campbell

“The answer to the problem of humanity is the integrity of the individual.” – Jordan Peterson

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.” – Mark Cooper

“Happiness is like ice cream – it comes in many flavors for you to choose from. Enjoy a colorful taste of pleasure or novelty today, some purpose and challenge and growth tomorrow.” – Shaun Roundy