
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
- Topic: Change, Desire
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.
› James Baldwin
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
› Isaac Newton
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
› Charles Kettering
Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.
› Michael Kitson
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
› Rumi
The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.
› Ronald Reagan
Change how you see and see how you change.
› Zen Proverb
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
› George Bernard Shaw
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
› Virginia Woolf
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
› Confucius
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
› Samuel Johnson
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
› Rumi
For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.
› Kahlil Gibran
Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.
› Emmet Fox
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
› Paul J. Meyer
The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.
› Edgar Guest
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
› Robert Collier
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
› Aristotle
No matter who you are or what your position you must keeping fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
› George Allen
