We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: social responsibiilty societal change political activism change

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations...can never effect reform.
Susan B. Anthony Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: caution risk fear reputation change visionary mover action change reform society activism

...the sources of the truest truths are inevitably profoundly personal.
Saul Bellow The Closing of the American Mind
Categories: truth true insight spirituality growth self-knowledge self-awareness honesty transformation change self-improvement life change meditation prayer self-discovery

The battle to heal human evil always begins at home. And self-purification will always be our greatest weapon.
M. Scott Peck People of the Lie
Categories: evil badness sin depravity change growth spirituality healing insanity badness cruelty madness crime lust greed change self-awareness responsibility

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
Categories: change

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Categories: change

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin
Categories: change

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
Real Live Preacher RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004
Categories: change

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: change

All that is, at all,

Robert Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: change

All things are changed, and we change with them.
Lothair I Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: change

Only by embracing change can we mold it in a way that benefits all of us.
Lewis Jaffe Re:Generations by Erika Germer, Fast Company, June 2000
Categories: change

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
Categories: change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
Categories: change

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Categories: change

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Categories: change

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
Categories: change

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Martha Beck O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
Categories: change

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations
Categories: change

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
Categories: change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
Categories: change

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau Walden (1970)
Categories: change

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon M.D.
Categories: change

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.
Categories: change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: change life

The truth is that every time a door closes behind us, the rest of the world opens up in front of us. All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that is now closed, turn around, and see the largeness of life that now lies open to our soul.
Parker J. Palmer "On Minding your Call -- When No One is Calling," by Parker J. Palmer, Weavings, May/June 1996
Categories: acceptance change

You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
Bruce Mau "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Bruce Mau. Fast Company, October 2000
Categories: growth change

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed--it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: change growth

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have -- and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
Paraphrased from Flight of the Buffalo by James A. Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer "Monkey Business", Fast Company, March 2000
Categories: change vision

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver Cassell Companion to Quotations
Categories: change society complaining

Better to bend then break.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: flexibility change adaptability

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.
Sark The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: change self-nurture creativity joy

It's never too late -- in fiction or in life -- to revise.
Nancy Thayer Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: change self-improvement growth

Change can be exhilarating, joyous, liberating. But it can also be terrifying, because, in a deeper sense, you are questioning your very identity and sense of value. But take the risk. It's worth it.
Dee Hock Fast Company, July/August 1999
Categories: change growth self-improvement

All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: change growth transition

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Mary Lamberton Becker Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: aging age change self-knowledge

Change is disruptive--that's the point!
Karen Bredfeldt "Make Change, Minimize Distraction" by Cathy Olofson in the January 1999 issue of Fast Company Magazine
Categories: change growth transitions

You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marion Wright Edelman Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: activism volunteerism change

Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Lawrence LeShan Meditating to Attain a Healthy Body Weight
Categories: change growth self-improvement

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: change growth self-improvement

The best piece of advice I know for dealing with change at work comes from flying: If you lose your way, keep moving -- no matter what.
Christine Shipp "Change is a Circus" by Karen Karbo, Fast Company, December 1999.
Categories: change confusion stagnation

We change, whether we like it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: change life character

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
Kahlil Gibran The Broken Wings
Categories: growth self-improvement change

Being faithful to the truth of one's own life is essential. And it is difficult to know when change represents a genuine willingness to engage life at its deepest level, and when it represents a simple cop-out. To keep our choices grounded in our deepest freedom, focused on willingness to love, will require continual effort to be faithful.
Elaine M. Prevallet, S. L. "Minding the Call" by Elaine M. Prevallet, S.L., Weavings, May/June 1996
Categories: authenticity change growth

...we come to beginnings only at the end.
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: beginning change transition

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: change beginning transition

You really can change the world if you
Marian Wright Edelman Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: activism volunteerism change

Every exit is an entry somewhere.
Tom Stoppard Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: circumstances change life

Not in his goals but in his transitions is man great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: change growth goals

Life, as I see it is not a location, but a journey. Everything is in flux, and is meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.
Henry Ford Business Lessons for All by Peter Krass, Bottom Line Personal, Jan 1, 1998
Categories: personal growth change self-improvement

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.
Will Garcia The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: change personal growth self-improvement

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting a stretch and grow and reach new heights.
Pauline R. Kezer Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change self-improvement transitions growth

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change transitions growth self-improvement

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change growth self-improvement rut stagnation

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.
Barbara Ward Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change inevitability evolution society

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: change progress improvement growth

Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine living life at the rate of an infant.
Bruce Mau "An Incomplete Manifesto For Growth" by Bruce Mau Fast Company, October 2000
Categories: growth learning change creativity

You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's being taken away. Just look to see what's been added.
Jackie Greer Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change growth transitions loss

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin Words for All Occasions
Categories: action work effort change

Changing your life, of course, is a matter of definition. It could mean opening your mind to a new concept or causing you to look at the commonplace from a different perspective or with new insight. It doesn't have to be revolutionary to be significant.
Carolyn Warner Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change growth learning self-improvement

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Willa Cather Simple Abundance
Categories: love miracles change vision

This [is] the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way and yet it turns out we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances Willard To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: progress change growth self-improvement

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin Simple Abundance
Categories: personal growth self-improvement change

Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened by whitewash.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: character change personal responsibility

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age growth change materialism vanity

For one of the most marvelous lessons you learn on a path of personal transformation is that when your heart is open to change, you're able to recognize the personal signals of encouragement your authentic self is constantly sending, no matter how unlikely the source.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: change growth self-improvement authenticity

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy Simple Abundance
Categories: change self-improvement growth life

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Carlo Brumat 'School for Leaders' by Eric Ransdell, Fast Company Magazine April 1999
Categories: leadership change rethinking growth

The potential for changing the future can lie only in the present.
Gillian Butler, Ph.D. and Tony Hope, M.D. Managing Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide
Categories: change future present self-improvement

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles L. Morgan The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: living happiness change joy flexibility

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.
Madeleine L'Engle The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: maturity adulthood fear change

...time it self, because it protects you from shapelessness, because it makes you pace yourself, and because it reminds you to keep moving, could very well be one of your greatest allies... But only if it persuades you to keep moving, and not to panic.
Barbara Sher Live the Life You Love : In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons
Categories: time progress change growth

It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better.
Alberta Lee Cox The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: success self-improvement growth change

Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.
John Welwood The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love growth change self-improvement

If I should fail you, do not sorrow;

Ogden Nash I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Ogden Nash
Categories: change personal growth failure

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua L. Liebman The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: growth self-improvement change acceptance

...when the fight begins within himself
A man's worth something.
Robert Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: self-awareness growth self-improvement change

Progress comes from people who think against the grain. Without nonconformists, you don't advance.
Saw Ken Wye Fast Company, September 1999
Categories: change innovation excellence success

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one--by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Art Fry "Unit of One" Fast Company, April 2000
Categories: change new ideas innovation leadership

I shall try to correct errors win show in to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as a shall appear to be true views.
Abraham Lincoln Power Quotes
Categories: change flexibility wisdom judgement

Everything is flux.
Heraclitus The Story of Thought
Categories: accepting change acceptance transitions

While it is wise to accept what we
Elaine N. Aron The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
Categories: acceptance hope change growth

No one can persuade another to change.
Marilyn Ferguson The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People : Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Categories: change persuasion toleration acceptance

All the best transformations are
Fay Weldon Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: change personal growth self-improvement

One of the easiest ways to change is simply to alter your position -- to focus on the one-inch square in front of you and put one foot in front of the other. But to go forward -- on a cliff, on a project, or in your career -- you sometimes first have to take a step sideways, or even a step back.
Mike Donahue "Idea Summit" by Anna Muoio,Fast Company, January/February 2000
Categories: change progress vision planning

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
Categories: hope despair change growth

When we don't prune in the garden, Nature does it for us through wind, ice, hail, fire, and flood. One way or another, the boughs will be shaped and strengthened. If we don't prune away the stress and plow under the useless in our lives, pain will do it for us.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: change pain growth authenticity

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: criticism blame excuses change

...the changes that matter most, the
Dan Baker "Enough is Enough" by Chuck Salter, Fast Company July/August 1999
Categories: change healthy habits will balance

In spite of all the knowledge that has been amassed through the ages, people would still rather learn from their own limited experiences so their responses to life remain just as primitive as those of people a thousand years ago. Can man change?
Joseph F. Girzone Joshua
Categories: change reading education self-improvement

No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven.
Ruth Sheppard Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: forgiveness love change friendship

Long customs are not easily broken: He that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do for others what we are seldom able to do for ourselves?
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: habits change self-improvement relationships

The butterfly becomes only when it's entirely ready.
Chinese proverb Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: growth patience change progress

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness opportunity focus change

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: growth change vision patience

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: victory self-improvement growth change

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: curiosity learning growth change

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
2nd Viscount Falkland (Lucius Cary) Power Quotes
Categories: change confidence self-knowledge wisdom

Many people never go after their dreams for a better life because they are afraid of change.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: dream change growth attitudes self-improvement

The knowledge of the difference between what we can change and what we must accept in ourselves is the beginning of real change. With this knowledge, we can use our precious time to make the many rewarding changes that are possible. We can live with less self-reproach and less remorse. We can live with greater confidence. This knowledge is a new understanding of who we are and where we are going.
Martin P. Seligman What You Can Change... and What You Can't
Categories: change acceptance priorities confidence self-knowledge

Most of us simply lack the imagination to envision the full scope of potential change in our lives. We are too invested in the present to consider the possibility of a threatening -- or even a promising -- future.
(uncredited) "Where are you on the Web?" Fast company, October 1999
Categories: vision imagination change growth future

I bend but do not break.
Jean de la Fontaine Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: flexibility growth learning change strength

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Harvey Mackay "Confusion inevitable with any change" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, 8/30/2000
Categories: change growth self-improvement success fulfillment

When coasting in our comfort zones, we don't grow. We continue to do more of the same...Maintaining a comfort zone can, paradoxically, lead to discomfort in the long run. If by being comfortable we avoid important life issues, internal tension accumulates...Eventually, as both internal and external pressures for change persist, the "comfort zone" ceases to serve us.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: comfort growth change rut decisions life

Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quite beautiful and extremely hard.
Maya Angelou You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: pressure stress change character development

Great ideas start with completely unrealistic thoughts.
Markus Mettler "Great Ideas in Aisle 9" Fast Company, April 2000
Categories: creativity brainstorming innovation change genius

Harmful habits can be broken. You can
Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose Dewolf The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How to Avoid : Simple and Sure Techniques for Gaining Greater Control of Your Life
Categories: habits thoughts actions change self-improvement

Whenever your present situation, I
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People : Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Categories: habits change self-improvement personal growth

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
Erica Jong Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: fear change transitions growth procrastination

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action adventure risk change growth

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
Categories: spirituality thinking thought growth change

I am a part of all I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world whose margins fades
For ever and ever when I move.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Compact Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: experience growth change exploration discovery

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: happiness flexibility change fear growth

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Lisa Alther Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change growth self-improvement friendships relationships

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at the present.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: proverb advice wisdom growth change

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
Dale Dauten 'Hope is secret to thriving in corporate life' by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, March 4, 1999
Categories: hope potential possibility growth change

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: patience habits annoyance anger change

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent
C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity
Categories: change personal growth self-improvement renewal

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross A Grateful Heart
Categories: death dying transitions change moving on

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
George Bernard Shaw The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: flexibility change personal growth circumstances

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-nurture patience change growth perfectionism

I am still learning.
Michelangelo The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: learning education wisdom growth change

It's important to feel that you're expected to make a difference--and that you're qualifited to do so. Innovation requires a fundamental belief that individuals are important.
Robert Dennard "Unit of One", Fast Company, April 2000.
Categories: change innovation self-confidence fulfillment expectation

Most people feel like a fraud when they assume a new role. Unaware that this is a normal experience, they fear being exposed. Such fear inhibits spontaneous creativity and undermines your ability to work at optimal speed. Accept that feeling, and unlock your creative responses to change.
Ronit Herzfeld "Master of Startup Disasters" by Rekha Balu,Fast Company, June 2000
Categories: learning education growth creativity change

There are no perfect human beings! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Abraham Maslow Thoughts on Leadership: A Treasury of Quotations
Categories: perfectionism expectations self-improvement growth change

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: pain change difficulties challenges problems

An ass does not stumble twice over the same stone.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: learning change growth self-improvement habit

All experience is an arch to build on.
Henry Brooks Adams Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: experience life growth learning change

Habit is habit and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain Franklin Seasons DayPlanner, October 20, 1993
Categories: habit rut character change growth self-improvement

I have long been fascinated by how we humans participate in our own evolution. Our growth process always seems to be happening in two directions at the same time: back to who we were originally--our true selves; and forward to what we can become--fulfilling that true self.
C. Diane Ealy The Woman's Book of Creativity (The Business of Life)
Categories: creativity growth self-improvement learning change

If you open your heart, love opens your mind.
Charles John Quarto, Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro "Open your heart" performed by Lowen & Navarro on their album Broken Moon.
Categories: love mind thought change transformation

... success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it' s how smoothly we cope with Plan B. And for most of us, that's 99 percent of the time.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: coping change flexibility adaptability happiness

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: change principles values self-knowledge vision

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
William Penn The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: self-control habit change growth self-improvement

Don't water your weeds.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: growth priorities change bad habits self-improvement

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless. You can build something that will be a legacy.
Jay Sidhu 'A Leader's Journey' by Pamela Kruger, Fast Company Magazine, June 1999
Categories: growth change failure mistakes education potential

Anger is loaded with information and energy.
Audre Lourde The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: anger motivation change emotions feelings angry

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle Words for All Occasions
Categories: habit character actions change personality identity

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love energy spirituality growth change self-improvement

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life change growth vision dream goal

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: change challenge growth learning education truth

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: chance change circumstances life difficulties misfortune

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: growth change creativity imagination past future

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.
Jennifer James Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: success growth change life balance joy happiness

The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: change relationships action life structure transitions

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: change growth self-improvement racism morality bigotry

Better to accept whatever happens.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: acceptance growth change problems difficulties challenges

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: change potential vision imagination possibilities choice

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: challenges difficulty problems learning growth change

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
Sheldon Kopp Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: character self-knowledge self-acceptance courage change growth

Most of those who succeed in achieving their goals do it by creating an environment for opportunity. They feel that they are entitled to go after what they want in life... They open themselves to positive change by becoming positive, energized people. They don't limit themselves with a poor self-image or a negative attitude. They get rid of negative baggage that holds them back. They believe in themselves, giving others cause to believe in them.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: success attitude self-image self-confidence self-improvement change

Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: patterns habits learning growth change vision rut

A pilgrimage, after all, is a strenuous undertaking, one in which companionship and support may be pivotal.
Julie Cameron The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: change journey growth self-improvement support encouragement

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: fear education learning wisdom growth change

We change constantly. Just as our cells die and are replenished every few months, new ideas present themselves continuously, opportunities bubble forth -- and our magnificent brains, all the while, keep processing millions of bits of information every day. If we're going to recognize and take advantage of the opportunities life affords us and at the same time worry well, we must accept this fundamental rule:

Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: change opportunities success worry fear failure

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: change growth wisdom soul mistakes success

It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light; points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: transitions changes end begin learning wisdom growth change

In order to allow ourselves to be creative, we have to relinquish control and overcome fear. Why? Because real creativity is life-altering. It threatens the status quo; it makes us see things differently. It brings about change, and we are terrified of change.... we live in a wild universe -- a universe in which the truth is frightening. My son died last December. He was only forty-seven years old. That's scary, and its lousy, but it's true. Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything -- even when you want to shut your eyes.
Madeleine L'Engle "Unit of One" Fast Company, April 2000
Categories: creativity fear control courage change truth

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.
Socrates The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: motivation change effort work action decision

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: trouble difficulties challenges problems growth change

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life fear success growth change courage

I am a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me.
Thomas Wolfe Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: growth change evolution self-improvement learning education

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide Simple Abundance
Categories: growth change transitions maturation self-improvement discovery

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
Categories: justice right society change racism oppression community

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only where it is already disappearing.
R.D. Laing Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: present history future vision society change

The absence of change is worse than inaction, it is atrophy.
Carolyn Warner Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change action stagnation growth self-improvement flexibility

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: growth change self-awareness self-knowledge learning introspection

The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.
L.P. Hartley The Go-Between
Categories: history past future change growth focus

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: advice mentoring mentorship leadership growth change

...changing your mind is easy; changing your heart is hard.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: change opinion bias beliefs self-improvement habit

Let us never confuse stability with stagnation.
Mary Jean LeTendre Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change balance maturity wisdom self-awareness self-knowledge

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield Simple Abundance
Categories: change growth acceptance flexible flexibility influence

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: community volunteerism emotions feeling action change

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.
Marian Wright Edelman Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: societal change reform activism social responsibility

You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: behavior relationships friendships happiness attitude change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change growth transitions self-improvement choice responsibility

Do not be too timid and squeamish...All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life change growth mistakes failure success fear

There is always hope for an individual who stops to do some serious thinking about life.
Katherine Logan Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: meditation self-awareness introspection philosopy potential change growth

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
William James Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude choice optimismist optimistic success self-improvement change

There is always a better way.
Thomas Edison Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: growth change progress self-improvement success opportunity creativity

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, but and fruit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: growth change progress self-improvement instinct opinion knowledge

When you change your patterns of thinking, you change the way you feel about yourself, about others, and about the world. And changing the way you feel enables you to deal more productively with your problems and burdens and to take actions necessary to improve your life.
Dr. Arthur Freeman The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How to Avoid Them
Categories: thought emotions change problems mistakes failures growth

...leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence...not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: leadership quest vision growth change success achievement

Our thoughts create our reality--not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is"--but eventually. Where we put our focus--our inner and outer vision--is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention.
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: vision ideas goals success desire change self-improvement

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
Horace The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: fault mistake habit character growth change compensation

Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin 9/16/98 Daily Lift mailing list
Categories: character integrity growth change self-improvement actions choices

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: progress action hope assurance growth change self-improvement

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.
Clarence Day The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: acceptance decisions adversity challenges change growth vision

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: change society heroes work effort honesty integrity

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do...Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: speech truth honesty integrity change flexibility growth

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble? Who was to blame?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it? What can I salvage here?'
Abraham Maslow Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: blame responsibility choice personal growth self-improvement change

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Sidney Jourard Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: personal growth conflicts relationships marriage change self-improvement

People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: regrets mature sorrow sadness change life circumstances

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin Simple Abundance
Categories: time change growth maturation maturing growing up learning

Change can either challenge or threaten us...Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: change challenge growth success beliefs self-esteem confidence

The ocean is made of drops.
Mother Teresa The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: actions service volunteerism helping caring community change

The process of succeeding can be seen as a series of trials in which your vision constantly guides you toward your target while in your actual performance you are regularly slightly off target. Success in any area requires constantly readjusting your behavior as the result of feedback from your experience.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: success vision progress performance feedback change growth

Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny.
Daniel P. Goleman Emotional Intelligence
Categories: temperament personality emotions growth change responsibility choice

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: speech change honesty authenticity growth flexibility opinions

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: progress growth change experience learning life success

He had the deed half done, who has made a beginning.
Horace Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: change action beginning effort goal progress success

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.
Hal Borland The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: frontier discovery creation creativity time growth change

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: change fate attitude determination flexibility flexible strength courage

What's vital about our creative process is that we learn to use it, to nurture it and express it in our daily lives.
C. Diane Ealy The Woman's Book of Creativity (The Business of Life)
Categories: creativity growth change self-improvement self-nurture talents abilities self-expression

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
Categories: progress change community society problem solving planning obstacles

Now that we know we can't change the past we can realize that at this very moment we have the wonderful opportunity to begin anew! If you want something there is simply no better time than right now to pursue it!
Josh Hinds Inspiration a Day! mailing list
Categories: opportunity past future vision goal growth change success

Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
John Lennon 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Categories: life living busyness stress plans interruptions transitions change

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.
King Solomon Ecclesiastes 1:7
Categories: nature cycle of life renewal growth change learning wisdom

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: courage strength growth change challenges difficulties problems learning

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: hope belief change adversity challenge problems difficulties difficulty

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
Bernie Siegel Handbook for the Soul
Categories: love choice attitude relationships friendships happiness happy change

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
King Solomon Ecclesiates 3:1, Holy Bible
Categories: nature cycle of life wisdom growth change acceptance rhythm

Everywhere I go, there I am again.
Pogo Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: obstacles change growth learning mistakes challenges difficulties problems

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves``us--and those around us--more effectively. Look for the learning.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: pain change emotion depression learning wisdom obstacles difficulties

How can we remember our ingnorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
Henry David Thoreau The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: growth learning change listening education mentoring leadership excellence

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go.
The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong.
Forgive yourself and move on. Have the courage to reach out for help.
Bernie S. Siegel, MD Love, Medicine & Miracles
Categories: past mistakes failures perserverance guilt learning growth change

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Gandhi Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40
Categories: action effort change society volunteerism grass roots organizations

Prosperity doth best discover vice but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: virtue challenge growth change temptation adversity character integrity

What! Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: mistakes habits learning education wisdom knowledge growth change

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual things which have already taken place.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: present future past time self-confidence self-awareness action opportunity change

...the fact that I practice meditation doesn't mean that I am always calm or kind or gentle, or always present. There are many times when I am not. It doesn't mean that I always know what to do and never feel confused or at a loss. But even being a little more mindful helps me see things I might not have seen and take small but important, sometimes critical steps I might not otherwise have taken.
Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Categories: meditation attitude learning growth personality change mindfulness present decisions

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
Liz Carpenter Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: power strength courage of your convictions bravery principles advocate for change will stand up for what you believe

...let us own our pain and move away from guilt, fault and blame toward recovery and healing.
Bernie S. Siegel, MD Love, Medicine & Miracles
Categories: pain guilt mistakes errors failures blame excuses growth change

Do not fail
To learn from
The pure voice of an
Ever-flowing mountain stream
Splashing over the rocks.
Morihei Ueshiba The Art of Peace
Categories: obstacles challenges difficulties problems growth change learning nature education

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences...To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., from the essay "Windows of the Soul" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: self-nurture life soul work happiness balance self-esteem growth change

What do your conversations say about your self-beliefs? Do your words and self-descriptions enable your creative skills, let you sustain the tensions of change? Or, does your everyday language discourage you, and cause you to run from unknown?
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: words talk speech thoughts self-deprecating self-image self-confidence change growth

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Stephen Covey "Unit of One," Fast Company, April 1999
Categories: relationships teamwork team work change growth influence leadership mentoring

Too many people are mere products of their context, lacking the will to change, to develop their potential. I also believe, however, that anyone, of any age and in any circumstances, can transform himself if he wants to.
Warren Bennis On Becoming a Leader
Categories: will change growth victim of circumstances self-actualization self-determination learning success achievement

Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety; to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Rollo May Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: freedom free will stress anxiety change fear growth courage strength

There was never a time when so much official effort was being expended to produce happiness, and probably never a time when so little attention was paid by the individual to creating the personal qualities that make for it. What one misses most today is the evidence of widespread personal determination to develop a character that will in itself, given any reasonable odds, make for happiness. Our whole emphasis is on the reform of living conditions, of increased wages, of controls on the economic structure--the government approach--and so little on man improving himself.
William Ogden, 1945 Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness joy meaning fulfillment character self-determination self-improvement attitude growth change

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I like to work out. I like to play ball. I like to spend time with my friends. I like to make myself better every day. I like to try to learn. It doesn't take money to do that.
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns player "Stevie Wonder" by Brian Bujdos, an article in the April 1998 issue of FastBreak magazine
Categories: happiness materialism focus friendship growth learning change self-improvement priorities

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action volunteerism work effort change community giving sharing leadership

Commitment is the cornerstone of creative change.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: commitment goal vision mission change self-improvement growth determination persevere

Celebrate being alive every day. Live your highest aspirations; learn what you always wanted to learn. Don't wait until you get hit by a truck or acquire a terminal illness to change the things that prevent you from living your life to the full. Whatever your habits, whatever your age, you can change...you can learn.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: change growth self-improvement breaking habits joy happiness happy fulfillment meaning

You are as young as you feel after trying to prove it.
Lou Erickson Words for All Occasions
Categories: mid-life crisis male menopause age aging change vanity conceit pride

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: change difficulties obstacles challenges adversity problems gratitude attitude focus growth

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
Categories: life problems obstacles challenges difficulties discipline will action character growth change

Those things that hurt, instruct.
Ben Franklin The Road Less Traveled
Categories: pain problems challenges difficulties obstacles wisdom education learning growth change

Some tension is necessary for the soul
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Handbook for the Soul
Categories: personal growth change soul love healing forgiveness service serve self-nurture

Adversity is the foundation of virtue
Japanese proverb. The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: adversity character virtue growth proverb saying difficulties problems obstacles challenges change

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: problems difficulties challenges obstacles self-awareness growth change progress understanding wisdom

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.
Dale Dauten 'Charming the brain may allow changes' by Dale Dauten (Arizona Republic 1/7/99)
Categories: love joy attitude gratitude change growth self-improvement resolutions relationships success excellence

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
Bernie Siegel, MD Handbook for the Soul
Categories: nature adversity difficulty challenges obstacles renewal change growth rebirth overcoming

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. But first we'll have to make changes. And lasting change does not happen overnight. Lasting change happens in infinitesimal increments: a day, an hour, a minute, a heartbeat at a time.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: worry stress anxiety greed want poverty discovery soul happiness joy change self-improvement habits

The Checklist of Change``
1. Take your time.``
2. Arrange temporary structures.``
3. Don't act for the sake of action.``
4. Recognize why you are uncomfortable.``
5. Take care of yourself in little ways.``
6. Explore the other side of change.``
7. Get someone to talk to.``
8. Find out what is waiting in the wings of your life.``
9. Use this transition as the impetus to a new kind of learning.``
10.Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: patience structure change transition action self-care self-nurture exploration support self-awareness learning

...gradual change is usually more fruitful in the long run than is forced, ultra-aggressive upheaval. Undertaken wisely, steady transitions cultivate authenticity, groundedness, and virtues--like patience, compassion (for self and others), and perseverance. All these qualities improve your probability of success when, ultimately, you do figure out how to actualize your personal vision.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: change progress future vision authenticity virtues patience compassion perseverance success actualization

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: self-improvement change growth learning character guidance potential excellence mentoring coaching planning

Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.
Myla Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Categories: challenges opportunities opportunity obstacles difficulties difficulty problems adversity growth change learning

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederick Amiel Words for All Occasions
Categories: age aging old senior citizens elders elderly wisdom understanding development growth change self-improvement

When we can't access our inner resources, we come to the flawed conclusion that happiness and fulfillment come only from external events. That's because external events usually bring with them some sort of change. And so we've learned to rely on circumstances outside ourselves for forward or backward momentum as we hurtle through life. But we don't have to do that any longer. We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: change self-improvement growth self-discovery self-awareness happiness emotion mood fulfillment meaning purpose

Aging is a life-spanning process of growth and development from birth to death. Old age is an integral part of the whole, bringing fulfillment and self-actualization. I regard aging as a triumph, a result of strength and survivorship.
Margaret Kuhn Words for All Occasions
Categories: aging age growing old elderly senior citizen growth change self-improvement strength courage bravery

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: effectiveness relationship growth change paradigms character motives victory promises personality self-improvement

Whenever words fly up at me from a printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.
David Grayson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: wisdom books knowledge change growth quotations quotes memorization learning reading education

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: change growth criticism learning wisdom bad habits imperfections sins character self-improvement self-awareness self-knowledge

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot The Thinker's Way: 8 Steps to a Richer Life
Categories: purpose goal fulfillment aging regret future choices regrets change self-improvement personal growth

Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda Bits & Pieces magazine
Categories: success achievement vision goal planning mistakes failures learning growth progress change self-improvement

"But can you persuade us, if we refuse to listen to you?" he said.
"Certainly not," replied Glaucon.
"Then we are not going to listen; of that you can be assured."
Plato The Republic
Categories: stubbornness stubborness listen listening change speech words communication understanding wisdom relationship parenting

Advice to a fool goes in one ear and out the other.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: proverb advice foolishness stupidity listening understanding advise counsel wisdom learning change growth choice

Persons and societies do not submit passively to surroundings and events. They make choices as to the places where they live and the activities in which they engage--choices based on what they want to be, to do and to become. Furthermore, persons and societies often change their goals and ways; they can even retrace their steps and start in a new direction if they believe they are on a wrong course. Thus, whereas animal life is prisoner of biological evolution which is essential irreversible, human life has the wonderful freedom of social evolution which is rapidly reversible and creative. Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.
Rene Dubos Celebration of Life
Categories: choice responsiblity direction meaning purpose fulfillment change destiny evolve personality habits self-improvement growth

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: "This, too, shall pass."
Ann Landers Life's Little Treasure Book On Wisdom
Categories: problems difficulty difficulties challenges obstacles attitude persevere overcoming overcome troubles hard times change flexibility

What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
Categories: pain change growth discipline gratification responsibility integrity truth honesty balance wisdom learning obstacles challenges problems

It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before--human experience--is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.
Ray Lyman Wilbur Light from Many Lamps
Categories: mistakes observation wisdom learning living life sorrow experience history past errors growth change success happiness

In order to arrive at paydirt, the valuable ore they are seeking, miners must sift through and discard a great deal of worthless material known as "the overburden." In personal terms, our individual overburden can obscure the gleam of a creative gift.
Buried under the negative (or simply ignorant or misleading) interpretations of others, the glistening veins of our talents, dreams, and aspirations must be actively sought in order to be found.
Julie Cameron The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: self-knowledge self-awareness talent growth change work effort skill gift opinions expectations negativity judgementalism dreams aspirations

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy...to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
William Henry Channing Light from Many Lamps
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The journey of spiritual growth is a long one.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
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Growth of the soul is our goal, and
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Handbook for the Soul
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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...the details of our days do make a difference in our lives...no experience is ever just for drill...everything can be a springboard for inspiration if we are willing to be open to the goodness of life.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
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...conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
Ronald Heifetz The Leader of the Future by William C. Taylor. Fast Company Magazine, June 1999
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The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny--that which we call character--but rather improving it and enhancing it as far as possible...Through training, instruction, contemplation, success, failure, advancement, hindrance, and ever more contemplation, the organs of man, in their instinctive, free activity, unite the acquired with the innate to produce a harmonious unity that astonished the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Permanent Goethe Edited, Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Mann
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Look at people; recognize them, accept them as they are, without wanting to change them.
Helen Beginton Words for All Occasions
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There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
Jan Ashford Treasury of Women's Quotations
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