Starting Anew Quotes

When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.

It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities?

Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

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

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

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

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent, teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts.

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old? The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing. What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river.

I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew.

Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with ourselves in the face of life or death, prominence or obscurity, or an infinite amount of changes and variations, and will be in accord with principle.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

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

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.