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Change Growth Quotes

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

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”

“For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.”

“If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.”

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

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

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

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

“Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.”

“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”