Taking responsibility means being aware of where and when you are NOT taking responsibility so that you can eventually change.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it’s costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes—goodwill among men and peace on earth.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side…when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time…is a very good one…
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.
—Indian Proverb
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man’s role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
Change in all things is sweet.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
—Richard Nixon (1913–94) American Head of State, Lawyer
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
—John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) British Political Leader, Writer, Editor, Journalist
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher
Don’t be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around. The path that needs changing is the one in your mind.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
The reality is that changes are coming… They must come. You must share in bringing them.
—John Hersey (1914–93) American Novelist, Journalist
Things don’t change, but by and by our wishes change.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
—John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American Naturalist
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
—H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English Novelist, Historian, Social Thinker
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
—Turkish Proverb
In the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
—John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) Canadian-Born American Economist
In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
—Unknown
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.
—Unknown
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
—Menander (c.343–c.291 BCE) Greek Comic Dramatist, Poet
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
—Sa’Di (Musharrif Od-Din Muslih Od-Din) (c.1213–91) Persian Poet
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
When you are through changing, you are through.
—Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886–1967) American Author, Advertising Executive, Politician