Change Quotes - Page 23

• We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Accepting, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Voice, Growth, Inability

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• Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Teenager

  Quoted in Fortune, 14 Sept. 1987

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• Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

  Ben Bernanke

  Technology, Years, Entrepreneur

  "Letting the air out". www.economist.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Strength, Strong

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• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

  Herbert Otto Gille

  Life, Self Esteem, Learning

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• To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

  Tom Peters

  Past, Demand, Scene

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• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Truth, Past

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

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• Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

  George Eliot

  Life, Influence, Succession

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2578, ShandonPress

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• Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

  Laurens van der Post

  Life Changing, Journey, Growth

  Laurens Van der Post (1979). “Venture to the interior”, Harcourt

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• It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Inspirational, Morning, Home

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• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Persistence, Organization

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lakes, Stones, Littles

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• Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

  Publilius Syrus

  Mean, Humility, Reality

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• Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Political, World

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.87, Book Tree

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• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

  John Lennon

  Wisdom, Love Yourself, Passion

  "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

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• Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

  Bernard Baruch

  Truth, Reality, Views

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• Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Growth, Eternal Love, Eternity

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.47, Publishdrive

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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Passion, Heart

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Relationship, Children

  "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog". Book by Bruce D. Perry, 2006.

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• The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, People, Silence

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• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Time, Revenge

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• The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

  Charles Kingsley

  Nature, Travel, Rain

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.

  Bobby Knight

  Years, People, Situation

  Bobby Knight's farewell speech to students at Indiana University in Bloomington, www.nwitimes.com. September 14, 2000.

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• Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Song: 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)' ('Double Fantasy')". 1980.

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