Quotations similar to CHANGE - SELF-IMPROVEMENT, COURAGE, GOALS
Also see CHANGE AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow. - Richard Bach
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously. - Tom Peters
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. - Ellen Glasgow
All great changes are preceded by chaos. - Deepak Chopra
All that you touch you Change, All that you Change, Changes you. - Octavia Butler
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - Arnold Bennett
As human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world…as being able to remake ourselves. - Gandhi
Be willing to reinvent yourself, because if Cher and Madonna can do it - you can!
- Unknown
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. - Anthony D’Angelo
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. - Dr Michael McGriffy
Change alone is unchanging. - Heraclitus
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. - Herbert A Otto
Change before you have to. - Jack Welch
Change does not cause pain; resistance to change is what causes pain. - Unknown
Change is fun and exciting and, like a haircut, looks funny at first; but once you get used to it, it’s great. - Anne Blair
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional. - Glenda Cloud
Change is not a matter of possibility, it’s a matter of decision. - Kevin Ngo
Change is not meant to be COMFORTABLE because all change that really matters takes you beyond the limits of your COMFORT zone. - Che Garman
Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning. - Charles Handy
Change is the end result of all true learning. - Leo Buscaglia
Change never feels right, but when you act ‘as if’, eventually the uncomfortable feelings die away. - David L Preston
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. - Barack Obama
Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. - Will Durant
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. - Jacob Braude
Do not resist change. Without it you become obsolete. - Larry James
Do things the ego does not like to do. - Stuart Wilde
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. - John Lancaster Spalding
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
- Alice Walker
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy
Everything changes when you change. - Jim Rohn
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. - Robert Allen
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. - John Wooden
Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change. - Buddha
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. - Reinhold Niebuhr
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley
I'd rather change my mind and succeed, than have my own way and fail. - Unknown
If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. - Gelett Burgess
If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you. - Fred Devito
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. - Unknown
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted. - Francis Bacon
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. - Tony Robbins
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. - Jim Rohn
If you don’t like the way you feel, then change your behavior. - Thomas D Willhite
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. - Jack Dixon
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. - Charles F Kettering
If you want something different, you gotta do something different. - Nathaniel Williams
If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. - John D Rockefeller
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Unknown
In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you. - Anwar Sadat
It is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. - Eileen Caddy
It only takes one person to change your life - you. - Ruth Casey
It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Andy Gilbert
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. - Mignon McLaughlin
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. - Buddha
Just because everything is different doesn't mean that everything has changed. - Irene Peter
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different. - Calvin and Hobbs
Learn how to rethink, and you start to change. - Chris Turner
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. - Neale Donald Walsch
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. - Goethe
Life is a continuous process of getting used to things we hadn't expected. - Martha Lupton
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. - Anne Wilson Schaef
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Life is Change. Growth is Optional. Choose Wisely. - Karen Kaiser Clark
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. - Elaine St James
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. - Unknown
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward & uncomfortable when trying something new. - Brian Tracy
Never doubt for a moment that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it has never happened any other way. - Margaret Mead
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too. - Unknown
No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change. - Bill Phillips
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin
Nothing ever is, everything is becoming. - Plato
Nothing will change in your life if you don't do something different from what you have been doing. - E. Perry Good
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example. - Unknown
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. - Charles F Kettering
People rarely change. They react first, think later, and regret at leisure. - Unknown
Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you’ve always done things. - Dr Wayne Dyer
So much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. - Leo Buscaglia
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. - Kerri Russell
Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it. - George Bernard Shaw
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change. - Rev Jesse Jackson
The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb its routine. - William Danforth
The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live. - Deepak Chopra
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
The fates lead him who will - him who won't, they drag. - Seneca
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. - Nathaniel Branden
The key to change is to let go of fear. - Rosanne Cash
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammad Ali
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. - Joseph Campbell
The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable! - T Harv Eker
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. - Alan Watts
The past will continue to be your future if you drag it along with you. - David Bach
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, becomes nothing.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The shortest route from the starting point to your destination is the highway marked 'Willingness to Change'. - Jim Hartness
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. - Elbert Hubbard
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Denis Waitley
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. - Thomas Hardy
To be outstanding - get comfortable with being uncomfortable. - Alrik Kondenburg
To change and to improve are not necessarily the same thing. - Jim Willett
To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions (no excuses).
- William James
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. - Dennis Weaver
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
- Golda Meir
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. - Arthur Christopher Benson
We can never really change someone; people must change themselves. - Stephen Covey
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Carl Jung
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. - R D Laing
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Goethe
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. - Wayne Dyer
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. - Viktor Frankl
When you are through changing, you are through. - Bruce Barton
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. - Dr. Robert Anthony
When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page. - Eileen Caddy
Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn’t make any difference to who you truly are. - Baba Ram Dass
Why is it when we are young, we change our opinions too often, and when we are older, too seldom? - Unknown
You are always only one choice away from changing your life. - Mary Blochowiak
You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.
- Adlin Sinclair
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. - Pearl S Buck
You cannot become who you want to be by remaining who you are. - Che Garman
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
- James A. Froude
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. - Les Brown
You cannot tread the Path before you become the Path yourself. - Zen Saying
You can't change the past, but you can change now! - Unknown
You can't keep saying and doing the same things and expect better results. - Joan Duncan Oliver
You have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara De Angelis
You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Gandhi
You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. - Denis Waitley
You seek too much information and not enough transformation. - Shirdi Sai Baba
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