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If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
β Michael Jordan

Wisdom for Every Moment
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
You can change friends but not neighbours.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
A change of environment is pretty refreshing.
You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.
There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.
Change takes courage.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can't put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You'll never learn.
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
You change your life by changing your heart.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.
You change the world by being yourself.