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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
John C. Maxwell
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J.M. Power
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
Leonard I. Sweet
The only constant in life is change.
Heraclitus
The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people.
Unknown
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Peter Drucker
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.
Steve Jobs
The most successful entrepreneurs are those who are willing to take risks and try new things.
Mark Zuckerberg
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Al Franken
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to avoid mistakes is to have no new ideas.
Albert Einstein
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley
Admitting our mistakes is a sign of maturity and wisdom. We learn more from knowing our mistakes.
Anonymous
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
T. Harv Eker
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.
Michael Jackson
Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.
Tony Robbins
If you're not a little bit uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not growing. The magic happens outside of your comfort zone.
Jack Canfield
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
Thomas Jefferson
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues.
William Ellery Channing
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu
Perseverance is not a personality trait. It is a choice that we make to keep going when we feel like giving up.
Kate Snow
Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
Perseverance is the key to success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseverance is not a destination, but a journey to be enjoyed.
Suzanne Harper
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
William Pollard
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