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βDo not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.β
β John D. Rockefeller
βWe are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.β
β Maya Angelou
βPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.β
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.β
β Marcel Proust
βIt takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.β
β E.E. Cummings
βIf you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.β
β Wayne Dyer
βThe successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.β
β Bruce Lee
βCourage is the power to let go of the familiar.β
β Raymond Lindquist
βThere is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.β
β Machiavelli
βHe who rejects change is the architect of decay.β
β Harold Wilson
βChange is inevitable. Growth is optional.β
β John C. Maxwell
βEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.β
β Nelson Mandela
βWe dont have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change.β
β Howard Zinn
βLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.β
β Marcus Aurelius
βWithout change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement.β
β William Pollard
βChange is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.β
β Mandy Hale
βYou may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.β
β Margaret Thatcher
βAll things must change to something new, to something strange.β
β Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
βEven in the winter, even in the dark, the sun does not lose its strength. It merely waits to return.β
β Rumi
βChange before you have to.β
β Jack Welch
βNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.β
β Heraclitus
βIf you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.β
β Lao Tzu
βAll changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves.β
β Anatole France
βThings do not change; we change.β
β Thoreau
βWind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them.β
β Nassim Nicholas Taleb
βBe like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.β
βSome changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.β
β Eckhart Tolle
βIn every outward and visible grace of life, there is an inward and spiritual grace.β
β Rachel Carson
βWe cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.β
β Max DePree
βThe most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way.β
β Grace Hopper
βEvery new beginning comes from some other beginningβs end.β
β Seneca
βEvery moment is a fresh beginning.β
β T.S. Eliot
βTransformation is often more about unlearning than learning.β
β Richard Rohr
βWe must cultivate our garden.β
β Voltaire
βBe the change that you wish to see in the world.β
β Mahatma Gandhi
βIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, then you must write it.β
β Toni Morrison
βSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.β
β Octavio Paz
βOur greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.β
β Confucius
βFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.β
β Alan Watts
βMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.β
β Andre Gide
βLeap, and the net will appear.β
β John Burroughs
βThe world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.β
β Wendell Berry
βThere is nothing permanent except change.β
βThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.β
β William James
βWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.β
β Joseph Campbell
βThe function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.β
β Ralph Nader
βIncredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.β
β Steve Maraboli
βThe times they are a-changin.β
β Bob Dylan
βProgress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.β
β George Bernard Shaw
βThe bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.β
β Unknown
βObserve constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are.β
βWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.β
β Abraham Maslow
βNo bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.β
β William Blake
βLife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.β
β Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
βIf you want to make enemies, try to change something.β
β Woodrow Wilson
βCulture does not make people. People make culture.β
β Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
βIt's not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.β
β Leon C. Megginson
βThe art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.β
β Kakuzo Okakura
βNothing is forever except change.β
β Buddha
βSuccess is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.β
β George S. Patton
βEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.β
β Leo Tolstoy
βI am large, I contain multitudes.β
β Walt Whitman
βTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.β
β Henri Bergson
βThe greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.β
βThe softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.β
β Tao Te Ching
βThe people who must believe they are white can never be your measuring stick.β
β Ta-Nehisi Coates
βChange your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now, without delay.β
β Simone de Beauvoir
βIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.β
β Charles Darwin
βIf you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.β
βYou must be the change you wish to see in the world around you, beginning with your own heart.β
βLetting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.β
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βThe world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy.β
β Abraham Cowley
βDon't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.β
βAccept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.β
βFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.β
βWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.β
β NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
βIf you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.β
βThey always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.β
β Andy Warhol
βChange the way you look at things and the things you look at change.β
βBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.β
β Rilke
βAnd when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.β
β Paulo Coelho
βIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.β
β Frederick Douglass
βSmall deeds done are better than great deeds planned.β
β Peter Marshall
βBe not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.β
βFall seven times and stand up eight.β
β Japanese Proverb
βIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.β
βEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms, to choose ones attitude.β
β Viktor Frankl
βConsider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.β
βWhen we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.β
βDo not be ashamed to need help. You have a duty to fulfill just as a soldier on the wall of battle.β
βIn any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.β
βEvery day is a new opportunity to change your life.β
βGreat things never came from comfort zones.β
β Anonymous
βEverything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.β
βWhen they go low, we go high.β
β Michelle Obama
βYesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.β
βThe only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.β
β Arthur C. Clarke
βIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.β
β Krishnamurti
βThe wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.β
βHe who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.β
βJust when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.β
β Chuang Tzu
βDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.β
βOur greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.β
βYou cannot change what you are, only what you do.β
β Philip Pullman
βIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.β
βChange alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.β
β Arthur Schopenhauer
βCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.β
β Franklin D. Roosevelt
βDo not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.β
βResistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.β
β Ali Vincent
βAll things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.β
β Ovid
βIf you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.β
β Catherine Cook
βBe not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.β
β Chinese Proverb
βCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fearβnot absence of fear.β
β Mark Twain
βIn the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.β
β Camus
βThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.β
β Hannah Arendt
βIn a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.β
β Benjamin Disraeli
βThe most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.β
β Adrienne Rich
βAnother world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.β
β Arundhati Roy
βKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.β
β bell hooks
βLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.β
βNothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.β
β Mary Shelley
βThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold.β
β W.B. Yeats
βRevolution is not a one-time event.β
β Audre Lorde
βChange happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.β
β Tony Robbins
βIt is the little things citizens do. That is what will make the difference.β
β Wangari Maathai
βYou never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.β
β Buckminster Fuller
βWhat we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.β
βIf opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.β
β Milton Berle
βTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnβt do than by the ones you did do.β
βThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.β
βChange is not a threat, itβs an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.β
β Seth Godin
βYour silence will not protect you.β
βYou can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.β
β Jon Kabat-Zinn
βIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.β
β Booker T. Washington
βOpen your arms to change, but dont let go of your values.β
β Dalai Lama
βThe world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.β
β Charles Kettering
βBeauty will save the world.β
β Dostoevsky
βDo not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.β
β Benjamin Franklin
βHope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.β
β Vaclav Havel
βThe space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.β
β Marie Kondo
βThe first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.β
β Nathaniel Branden
βIf you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.β
βThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.β
β Zora Neale Hurston
βWhen 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.β
β Helen Keller
βI learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.β
βThanks to impermanence, everything is possible.β
βWe live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.β
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βConsider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.β
βIt's not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.β
βChange is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.β
β Robin Sharma
βIf you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.β
β Thomas Jefferson
βBecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.β
β Bertolt Brecht
βThe wise man changes his mind; the fool never will.β
βCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.β
βA year from now you will wish you had started today.β
β Karen Lamb
βEvery strike brings me closer to the next home run.β
β Babe Ruth
βThe pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.β
β William Arthur Ward
βAll progress takes place outside the comfort zone.β
β Michael John Bobak
βI am a slow walker, but I never walk back.β
β Abraham Lincoln
βChange is the end result of all true learning.β
β Leo Buscaglia
βThe art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.β
βThese are the times that try mens souls.β
β Thomas Paine
βWhen you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.β
βSilence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.β
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.β
β C.G. Jung
βIt is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.β
β Epictetus
βNew beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.β
βYou gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.β
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βAction is the foundational key to all success.β
β Pablo Picasso
βThe three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.β
βEvery wall is a door.β
βTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.β
βThe price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.β
β Bill Clinton
βA persons success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.β
β Tim Ferriss
βYou cant get to courage without walking through vulnerability.β
β Brene Brown
βTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.β
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βYesterday is but todays memory, and tomorrow is todays dream.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.β
βTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnβt do than by the ones you did do.β
βThe past is never dead. It is not even past.β
β William Faulkner
βKnowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.β
β Aristotle
βLet your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.β
β Rabindranath Tagore
βThe truth will set you free, but first it will make you angry.β
β Gloria Steinem
βStrengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.β
β Mary Wollstonecraft
βAll journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.β
β Martin Buber
βThe world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.β
β Albert Einstein
βThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.β
β Socrates
βA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.β
β John A. Shedd
βEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me.β
β Hafiz
βLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.β
β James Baldwin
βCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.β
β Ambrose Redmoon
βWhen you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.β
βChange is not merely necessary to life - it is life.β
β Alvin Toffler
βInnovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.β
β Steve Jobs
βA different world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.β
β Naomi Klein
βNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.β
β Pema Chodron
βA book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.β
β Franz Kafka
βThe best way to predict the future is to create it.β
β Peter Drucker
βIt is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change.β
βSuccess seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.β
β Conrad Hilton
βIf I cant dance, I dont want to be part of your revolution.β
β Emma Goldman
βGet in good trouble, necessary trouble.β
β John Lewis
βHope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.β
β Rebecca Solnit
βThe old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.β
β Antonio Gramsci
βYou must be the change you wish to see in the world.β
βCourage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'β
β Mary Anne Radmacher
βGreatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.β
β Dorothy Height
βA ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.β
βBegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.β
βSome people are old at eighteen and some are young at ninety.β
β Yoko Ono
βAll that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.β
β Octavia Butler
βIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.β
β Desmond Tutu
βSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.β
β Mary Oliver
βLife is about change. Sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's beautiful. But most of the time, it's both.β
β Lana Lang
βIn everyone lives the seed of a better world.β
β Albert Schweitzer
βIf we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.β
β Gail Sheehy
βAll is flux, nothing stays still.β
βThe only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.β
β Isaac Asimov
βWhen the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.β
βTo improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.β
βWhatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.β
β Goethe
βNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.β
βThe time is always right to do what is right.β
β Martin Luther King Jr.
βHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.β
β Anne Frank
βThe successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science.β
β Thomas Kuhn
βThey must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.β
βThe wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.β
βFall seven times, stand up eight.β
βChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.β
β John F. Kennedy
βWhen you are through changing, you are through.β
β Bruce Barton
βI am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.β
β Angela Davis
βIf you want to fly, you have to give up the stuff that weighs you down.β
βWhat you do today can improve all your tomorrows.β
β Ralph Marston
βThe changes we dread most may contain our salvation.β
β Barbara Kingsolver
βEvery great dream begins with a dreamer.β
β Harriet Tubman
βWithout deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.β
β Frank Zappa
βIf you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.β
βThey must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.β
βTo be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.β
β Simone Weil
βIn a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.β
β Theodore Roosevelt
βNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.β
β Margaret Mead
βEducation does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world.β
β Paulo Freire
βIn times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.β
β Eric Hoffer
βIt is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.β
βA year from now you may wish you had started today.β
βTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnβt do than by the ones you did.β
βThe only constant in life is change.β
βEvery success story is a tale of constant adaptation, revision, and change.β
β Richard Branson
βThe general population doesnt know whats happening, and it doesnt even know that it doesnt know.β
β Noam Chomsky
βYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.β
β Virginia Woolf
βGod, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.β
β Reinhold Niebuhr
βNothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!β
β Audrey Hepburn
βFailure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.β
β John Wooden
βThe ship is safest when it is in port, but thats not what ships were built for.β
βMy humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.β
βWhat seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.β
β Oscar Wilde
βWhat the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.β
β Richard Bach
βYou must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.β
β Denis Waitley
βWhen you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.β
βThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.β
β Albert Camus
βKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.β
βYou must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?β
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βCreativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.β
β Erich Fromm
βThe greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.β
βThe snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.β
βEmbrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.β
β Bob Goff
βEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.β
β John Dewey
βBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.β
βWe cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.β
β Carl Jung
βAll great changes are preceded by chaos.β
β Deepak Chopra
βThose who do not move, do not notice their chains.β
β Rosa Luxemburg
βWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.β
β Plutarch
βOnly those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.β
β Robert F. Kennedy
βEvery action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.β
β James Clear
βHardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.β
β C.S. Lewis
βThe measure of a man is what he does with power.β
β Plato
β Henry David Thoreau
βAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.β
β Anais Nin
βMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.β
βChange brings opportunity.β
β Nido Qubein
βInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.β
βWe cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.β
βChange is the only constant in life.β
βYour time is limited, do not waste it living someone elses life.β
βUntil the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.β
β Chinua Achebe
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