Quotes on Change

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Take an hour every day at dawn and give it to your Self. Meet your Self there, in the holy moment. Then go about your day. You will be a different person.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.