Thomas Hardy Quotes

Change isn't easy…. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, …. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall we be brave and wise.

We have nothing to fear from the truth – or the past – If we learn from it.

I'm very humbled by the fact that I do have so much to say, and I just hope that my walk, my honesty, will make a difference for people and maybe motivate them.

I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.