11,582 Quotes About Change

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

[B]eing tough, autonomous, intelligent, aggressive, and rational no longer means being a man. In fact, those traits don’t even mean being masculine, at least not in the sense of bring incompatible with or the opposite of feminine. Strength and independence are not part of what many women learn, through mass media, about being a woman, in narrative after narrative. (2)

The two things you should never worry about; Things you can change and the things you can’t change. Those you can change work hard and do it! Those you can’t give them to God and He will handle that. That covers everything!

If you remove a belief and leave nothing in its place, your circuit is not complete and it is difficult to process anything through the circuit. If you put a new belief into the circuit, it remains whole.

What would be different in your world if you practice letting go of those things that no longer serve?

Meaningful, lasting change only happens when the pain of the status quo finally outstrips the fear or the anticipated pain of the change we seek.

By repeatedly listening to what you know instead of what you fear, you unearth the power to create change.

我倒想過，一個人的實體，說起來不管年齡長到多大，其實並沒有改變多少。一碰到什麼事情，往往會下堅定的決心「好，從今以後我要改變！」可是一等到那什麼不見了之後，大多數人在大多數的情況下，簡直就像是形狀記憶合金，或像縮頭烏龜退回老窩去一樣，又在拖拖拉拉地恢復原型。說什麼決心，終究只不過是人生中的一番能源浪費而已。打開衣櫥一看，面對那些幾乎完全沒穿過的西裝，一絲皺紋都沒有的領帶，不得不這樣深深感嘆。只是相反的想到「不改變也沒什麼不好啊」時，很奇怪人卻變了。說起來還真奇怪。

One lesson from the occurrence of crises in the last century is that they are here to stay. The other aspect brought to light by the novel corona virus 2019 (COVID-19) is that personal or organizational experience cannot be a form of inoculation from future events that may present more crises.