Personal Change Quotes

• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Change, Success, Leadership

  Robert E. Quinn (2010). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

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• Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

  Harriet Lerner

  Political, Growth, Connections

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a key, we have forgotten the importance of fallow time and winter and rests in music. We have abandoned a whole system of dealing with the neutral zone through ritual, and we have tried to deal with personal change as though it were a matter of some kind of readjustment.

  William Bridges

  Winter, Keys, Car

  William Bridges (1980). “Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes”, Da Capo Press

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• Persistence is the mother of personal change

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Mother, Persistence

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• In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Sleep, Soul

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.

  Andy Greenwald

  Impediments

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• ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

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