Change Quotes - Page 54

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent, teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it

Enough is enough and it's time for a change.

Habits change into character.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

Many hands make light work.

You will never change what you tolerate.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.