Sue Grafton Quotes

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.

A lot of women have come to understand that you can't just show up and say I'm unhappy, you have to then go out and do something.

What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness.

The greatest joy is to transform one’s feelings into action.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.

I think that it's all about finding that confidence in you. If you don't feel like you have it, figure out what's making you unhappy - whether it's your surroundings, your job, whatever it is. Go out and change it.

So many people are expecting a miracle instead of BEING a miracle.

You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

An affirmation opens the door. It's a beginning point on the path to change.

If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

If the world does not please you, you can change it.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.