1．Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.- William Ellery Channing
2．Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.- Martin Luther King, Jr.
3．It is never too late to be who you might have been.- George Eliot
4．Hope and change are hard-fought things.- Michelle Obama
5．The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.- Alan Watts
6．It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety. (from Immunity to Change)- Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
7．If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.- Michael Jordan
8．I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.- Frances Moore Lappé
9．Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.- Jillian Michaels
10．A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
11．I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning, and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.- Anais Nin
12．How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.- Anne Frank
13．Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do -- or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.- Stanley Crawford
14．He who is not busy being born is busy dying.- Bob Dylan
15．An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.- Frank Lloyd Wright
16．The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.- Charles Dickens
17．It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.- Ralph Ellison
18．I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.- John Cage
19．I'm nowhere as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.- A. J. Foyt
20．Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.- Tara Brach
21．I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.- E. B. White
22．Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.- James Baldwin
23．Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
关于改变自己的英语作文(一)
From my point of view, we should change ourselves when the situation can’t be changed any more. Difficulties hide in every corner of our life so we have to face them at times. But the problem is that we sometimes are not able to change the challenging situations at all as our abilities are limited. When it comes, we’d better change our attitude towards these difficulties. Only in this way can we get rid of the tough surroundings and be happy.
Something like that happened to me once. There was a time when I was laughed at by my classmates while I was walking. I was puzzled so I asked them why they laughed at me. One of them told me that the way I walked was very strange and funny. I was sad but I just couldn’t change the way I walked. And the situation of being laughed at by those people didn’t stop. Therefore, I changed my attitude towards the incident. I ignored those comments on me and walked as I used to. The comments soon disappeared and I was so glad to have succeeded in the quiet war.
So in my opinion, we should change ourselves first and then the situation can be changed at last. It is very difficult for us to change our surroundings but much easier to change ourselves. People around us will see our change, after which they may change their attitude toward us.
关于改变自己的英语作文(二)
Change is indispensable to life a action, perhaps, you will change their career, maybe you‘ll change your status, but whatever oneself forever is the most important.
Change, can make you more harmonious and his colleagues, can make you look more excellent, can make other people to you is very satisfied, can make you more up a level! Change, is the best choice.
A young man came to work in a company, at first he hold all kinds of lofty goals want to do a great business, but then he found; The company all the way up and out, as in his he is like air, invisible, and generally feel it, as does not exist generally...... Various pressures and prompted him to want to dissatisfaction with another company to begin his work, the new journey, but a best friends said to him, "now find a proper job is not easy, why don‘t you look at yourself, then decide?" He embraced the idea of try stayed. Indeed he found, his own performance is not outstanding, the attitude is not friendly to colleagues, to work isn‘t aggressive enough... Finally he a rude awakening, after that, he became more friendly, active, work hard...... Also no longer as usual go it alone, when he again meet the best friends, the young man has been promoted as a manager.
Change yourself, change is successful state before, try to change their shortcomings, will give you a brilliant!!!!! Once, in near the exam in a week for several times, test, I lost, in the heart a remorseful, feel that they couldn‘t save good grades, is change reminds me, make me change the learning methods, won the final victory.
Change your, make oneself more outstanding, more perfect, let life shine for change.
it’s my great pleasure to stand here to present my speech—change the world, change ourselves.
it’s noticable that western holidays are becoming increasingly popular day by day, while chinese traditional festivals are being somewhat neglected. not long before about 10 doctors in beijing university and qinghua unversity announced that we should reject the invasion of western holidays ,because they regard western holidays as an challenge against our traditional festivals and culture.
frankly speaking, i don’t quite agree with them.indeed, we should never neglect or even discard our traditonal festivals as china boasts a brilliant history and splendid traditions. (examples).but why can’t we absorb the meaningful western holidays and culture.
there are obvious reasons why some western holidays are so popular in china. on the one hand, some of the western holidays which we chinese don’t have are reasonable and meaningful, such as father’s day and april fool’s day etc. on the other hand,the prevalence of globalization enables western culture to prevail in china. overwhelmed by such a trend,chinese unconsiciously get involved in western holidays and culture.
with the further development of the whole world, the cultural communication between different countries and nations becomes faster and more and more important. we are indeed from different nations, but we are the citizens of the same world, so the outstanding culture of different nations is the commom wealth of everyone on the earth.the only way for us to protect our traditional culture is to reject the foreign culture? the answer is definitely no. what we ought to do is to spare no effort to educate chinese to get to know and treasure our splendid traditions instead of rejecting foreign culture. only by educating can we set our confidence and belief towards our culture. only by educating can we preserve and promote the wealth that our ancesters left for us.
at last i’d like to share a famouse saying of gandhi with all of you ,that is:if you want to change the world, then you must change yourself first.”
