Change Growth Quotes

LeaderSHIFT:
Surpass the status quo
Honor your values
Impact the world
Focus on your purpose
T​ranscend boundaries ~ Farshad Asl

What I didn't know until right this very minute was how growing up happens in little surges. We grow up in moments - when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them. Maybe that's why some kids grow up too fast and others not at all. ~ Natalie C. Parker

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. ~ Denis Waitley

Unless and until we change, we cannot grow. What's life without growth? ~ Toni Sorenson

I can feel my life changing and I'm not ready. ~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are? ~ Dean Koontz

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia. ~ James Thornton

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock. ~ Eric Zorn

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin. ~ Blaine Lee Pardoe

Your life is a sacred journey & it is about change, growth, discovery... You are on the path & from here you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, beauty, wisdom & love! ~ Caroline Joy Adams

To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity. ~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau

The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change. ~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition. ~ Doris "Granny D" Haddock

Your growth is only intimidating to those who don't want to grow. ~ Jeanette Coron

It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along... ~ John Darnielle

I don't want revenge, Mandalay, I want Dwayne to be stopped. If he's not, somebody else will suffer like I am, like my parents and little brother are. And . . . "
"And what?"
"I think I'm the one who's supposed to stop him. It has to be me because I've killed people before. It won't change my song like it would my daddy's, or Aiden's, or Terry Joe's."
"So you remembered what happened to you, then?"
"No. I know what happened, and that's enough. If I remembered what happened, then the next time I tried to do it, it'd get all tangled up with those memories." She recalled the cliff-top conversation with Bliss. "The night wind's been preparing me for this, Mandalay. There's a need out there, and I can fill it. But it'll be on my terms."
"And what're those?"
Bronwyn smiled coldly. "Whatever I say they are."
"And how's that different from how you used to be? The Bronwynator, doing whatever she wants?"
"Maybe the 'how' ain't any different. But the 'why' is. You and the First Daughters wanted me back, didn't you? Now you've got me. And if it means you got the hum you wanted but the shiver's different, well, that's tough. ~ Alex Bledsoe

Growth is the process of responding positively to change. ~ Paul Harvey

There's always something coming. Good or bad, it's going to force you to grow. ~ Robert Tew

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places ~ Gyan Nagpal

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth. ~ Jon Stewart

In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity. ~ Nathaniel Philbrick

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same. ~ Sherwood Smith

Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a
credible alternative and then as the majority view ~ Gyan Nagpal

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. ~ Herbert Otto Gille

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met ~ Gregory Maguire

It's happened. It's in the past. You can't change it. You are not broken. Learn from the past, then build from it. ~ Tony Curl

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda

The Worm's Waking
by Rumi
This is How a Human Being Can Change:

There's a worm addicted to eating
grape leaves.

Suddenly, he wakes up,
call it grace, whatever, something
wakes him, and he's no longer
a worm.

He's the entire vineyard,
and the orchard too,
the fruit, the trunks,
a growing wisdom and joy
that doesn't need
to devour. ~ Rumi

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change. ~ Daniel Quinn

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments. ~ William Hague

The greatest disaster of self; comes not with experience of failure, but the fear gained belief; about what you think you cannot achieve ~ Nikki Rowe

[Spiritual] Practices are not for know-it-alls. Practices are for those who feel the need for change, growth, development, learning. Practices are for disciples. ~ Brian D. McLaren

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. ~ Miranda J. Barrett

Nothing happens without waiting. The seed in the ground does not become a tree overnight. It goes through seasons, nurturing, watering, pruning before it bears fruit. ~ Ngina Otiende

I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even without my knowledge. But it is here. While I was despairing, thinking everything lost, it was already quietly growing. I had thought that division was always an end. Now I know that growth also is division. And growth means relinquishing. And growth has no end. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

The growth mindset also doesn't mean everything that CAN be changed SHOULD be changed. We all need to accept some of our imperfections, especially the ones that don't really harm our lives or the lives of others. ~ Carol S. Dweck

Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self. ~ Nikki Rowe

Really, there's only one way of changing the world, and that's by changing yourself. ~ A.G. Roemmers

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream. ~ Harvey MacKay

Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence. ~ Masatoshi Naito

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change. ~ Julie Newmar

Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth? ~ Alex Berenson

Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow. ~ Rick Cormier

Adapt to your surrounding but remain flexible for growing. ~ Ashley Porter

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. ~ David F. Jakielo

But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can only hasten processes which are already in existence, and usually this just means that it degrades. You see, in hell one lacks the energy for any good change. This indeed is the meaning of hell. ~ Iris Murdoch

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one's slant accordingly - at least once every ten years. The great heroic devotion to one point of view is very alien to me - it's a lack of humility. Mayakovsky killed himself because his pride would not be reconciled with something new happening within himself - or around him. ~ Boris Pasternak

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. ~ Walter Mosley

Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom. ~ John Mark Green

A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs. ~ Jeb Bush

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by. ~ Phyllis Bottome

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong. ~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

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. ~ Lillian B. Rubin

Others are ahead of me. I am continually challenged. My focus is forward. The atmosphere is affirming. I am often out of my comfort zone. I wake up excited. Failure is not my enemy. Others are growing. People desire change. Growth is modeled and expected. ~ John C. Maxwell

My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth. ~ Joseph Stiglitz

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. ~ Rick Warren

It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through the lyrics I write and the pictures I've been in. There is no old or new Hayley. There is however an older Hayley. I'm 25 now. Good on me for living through all these years with a million people's judging eyes all over me and thinking they know me better. ~ Hayley Williams

Changing yourself changes everything. ~ Bryant McGill

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. ~ W. H. Auden

Conflict forces one to better oneself. It forces change, growth, adaption, evolution… or death. ~ Yuthura Ban

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others. ~ Brene Brown

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one's self endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change. ~ Geoffrey West

Things will start changing for the better when you begin trusting yourself. ~ Robert Tew

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve. ~ Sarah McLachlan

Change is the mother of growth and maturity. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Chaos, challenge & difficulty can be an opportunity for growth. Do you tend to change when things are all sweetness & light? ~ Kelly Martin

Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane. ~ Stefan Molyneux

You're probably wondering what the heck I mean by "The Pillars of Your Life", right? Well this is simple. It's the things that make your life what it is. The things or people that make you, you. There's work, family, your hobby, your art, and your traditions. Except, some of us have wonky pillars. Some of us give one pillar too much to hold, and the others not enough. One's too tall, whilst the others are too small. Therefore we become unstable, and sometimes, everything comes crashing down. ~ S.R. Crawford

If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you'll have to make the changes you've always needed. ~ Orrin Woodward

Somewhere along the journey i lost myself; i learnt to be who they told me to be, i lived that girl for decades until their truth showed me; the words they were preaching didnt match the the steps they were walking, so i was done with their opinion and went on my unique way. ~ Nikki Rowe

Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth. ~ Mark Manson

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret. ~ Warren Zevon

We all get waves of regret
sometimes
but instead of
dwelling
on what you can't change,
start focusing on what you can. ~ Alexandra Elle

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. ~ Abraham Maslow

Growth is a multistep process, but it is an actual process. Spiritual formation isn't quite as slippery as some make it out to be. The first step is to crack ourselves open to see what we're hiding, either deliberately or inadvertently, and to drag what is in the dark into the light. This is the process of self-discovery and self-awareness. ~ Anne Bogel

You have to stop carrying life like a burden. Life is not a burden. It's not heavy to be alive. It's weightless. It's light as air. You're just floating, a leaf through space, for a little while. You just have to learn to close your eyes more, or open them, when you can. You just have to learn to float with the current more, not fight against things. Change, movement, transitions ... you have to become one with the current. ~ Charlotte Eriksson

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go. ~ Steve Maraboli

Contrary to what you may have heard or been taught, your ego isn't a bad thing. It means well. The ego wants to keep you safe, secure, protected and accepted. The problem comes in because it usually attempts to do this by keeping you in the same small, reclusive orbit that you've always gravitated toward. Life, on the other hand, is about change, growth and unfolding ever-greater aspects of the self. We all know the pain that is experienced when life decides to change even though you don't want it to. The harder you try to hold on to the comfort and safety of "what was" or "how it's always been done," the more pain you feel. ~ Charles Holt

/You've been presented with a rare opportunity that,at the moment,remains unresolved. But why is the unknown a burden? It doesn't have to be. It can just as easily be the opposite - a kind of awakening to feel something. I don't just mean the Installation. Even before that. This is a chance to be taken out of your daily, weekly, monthly, yearly routine, regardless of the final outcome. Again . . . /This is for both of you. It's a chance to wake up. How many people live day to day in a kind of haze, moving from one thing to the next without ever feeling anything? Being busy without ever being absorbed or excited or renewed? Most people don't ever think about the full range of achievable existence; they just don't./ ~ Iain Reid

You can change anything you want to change, and you can do it very fast. That's another satanic suckerpunch - that it takes years and years and eons of eternity to repent. It takes exactly as long to repent as it takes you to say, 'I'll change' - and mean it. . . . You may well spend - indeed you had better spend - the rest of your life proving your repentance by its permanence. But change, growth, renewal, and repentance can come for you as instantaneously as for Alma and the sons of Mosiah. ~ Robert Reynolds

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change. ~ Steve Maraboli

I'm sorry I changed… life forced me to grow. ~ Robert Tew

Times change, years speed by, but Christmas continues sacred. It is through giving, rather than getting, that the spirit of Christ enters our lives. God still speaks. He prompts. He guides. He blesses. He gives. ~ Thomas S. Monson

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. ~ Kevin Kelly

No art has ever really changed anything. ~ Ali Smith

Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change! ~ Bill Crawford

Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it. ~ Ray Kurzweil

There is only one way to survive and thrive when faced with circumstances out of our control and for which we are unprepared: ADAPT. ~ Charles F Glassman

When your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans. ~ Katherine Hannigan

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came. ~ Robert Jordan

If I had a chance for another try,
I wouldn't change a thing
It's made me all of who I am inside
And if I could thank god
That I am here, and that I am alive
And everyday I wake
I tell myself a little harmless lie
The whole wide world is mine ~ Angels Airwaves

Don't boast because you know too little," Mrs. Pang says.
"Things change a lot. Within a blink a mountain flattens and a river dries up. Nobody knows who he'll become tomorrow. ~ Yiyun Li

First World countries may have great infrastructure, material comfort and modernity, but these cannot compare with the way the homeland speaks to a Filipino's heart. There may be potholes in the street where I live but they 'speak' to me in a way that a flawless highway in a developed foreign country cannot. I may be upset by the potholes, but the feeling is a familiar one, and it is easier to endure than alienation in a foreign land. The things that upset me about the country 'speak' to me in that same familiar language. In fact, it is so familiar that my sense of humor can run circles around the very things I complain about. But that is precisely the problem: because these have become too familiar, I am no longer moved by them - at least not enough to be able to change things. Indeed, they have become 'my' potholes. Life in the Philippines may be hell at times, but it remains our home. ~ Jim Paredes

'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it. ~ Channing Tatum

What about you? I know you're not married. Are you seeing anyone or anything?"

An image of Brooke sleeping in his bed popped into Cade's head. Then a second image came to mind, of her giving him the "text me" speech at his front door. "Nothing serious."

"Really? 'Cuz you paused there."

If one more person commented on these damn alleged pauses . . . "Just eat your lunch," Cade said.

With a grin, Zach threw Cade's words back at him. "If you're having trouble talking to some girl, maybe you need to find another way to tell her how you feel."

"I know how to talk to her just fine."

"Maybe you're not saying the right things, then."

"Can we change the subject?" Cade ran his hand through his hair. "You're sixteen years old. Trust me, relationships get a lot more complicated when you're an adult."

"Is this a friends-with-benefits situation?"

"Aren't you a little young to know about friends-with-benefits situations?"

"I didn't say I was partaking in them myself," Zach said. "But shockingly, yes, I have heard of scenarios in which adults engage in intercourse without riding off into the sunset together."

Cade tried to decide how best to sum up the situation with Brooke. "There is a woman. We are friendly. There have been benefits."

"Do you like her?"

Cade gestured with his burger. "Of course I like her. She's, like, the smartest, wittiest, woman ~ Julie James

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks. ~ Jose Mourinho

When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity. You will have nothing to lose but you will win and change the humanity. ~ Debasish Mridha