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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Sep 10, 2025
When you are through changing, you are through.
When you're through changing you're through.
My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Growth is the only evidence of life.
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time of change, growth and new learning, a time when our courage gives us hope.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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.
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.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
All growth depends upon activity.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Be the change you want to see.
If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.