Quotes About Change Personal Growth

#1. Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.

Paul Gibbons

#2. Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#3. Changing yourself changes everything.

Bryant McGill

#4. The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a "right time" for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing that you have always wanted to do. Start now!

Paul Gibbons

#5. You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision.

Bob Proctor

#6. How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#7. We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

Robert E. Quinn

#9. We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#11. It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

Donald Miller

#12. You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

Miguel Ruiz

#13. 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.

Adam Johnson

#14. The moment you believe your experience is caused by other people, you are giving them your power.

Jeanne McElvaney

#15. True change doesn't happen overnight; it has to happen gradually. You first have to have a change of heart, then a change of mind, and then your actions will follow.

Kaiylah Muhammad

#16. Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

Gary Rohrmayer

#17. This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.

Anna White

#18. Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.

John Patrick Hickey

#19. And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.

Rae Earl

#20. Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have.

John Patrick Hickey

#21. Always keep an open mind and to listen to what those around you have to say about you. You might actually learn something that may help you become a better person!

Auliq Ice

#22. If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.

Richard Rohr

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

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.

Auliq Ice

#25. The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.

James Hollis

#26. To say, "I've been converted and that's that," is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

Steve Goodier

#27. Without faith, it is impossible to succeed. It takes faith to grow, change or move out of your comfort zone. All external interventions become futile without the personal and internalized buy-in from the spirit-man who needs to change towards a given success destination.

Archibald Marwizi

#28. Your personal development is your personal responsibility. No one can study or acquire knowledge for you. There are things only you can do, to bring the change or the results you require to make progress in life.

Archibald Marwizi

#29. You fall flat on your face, and it's not the first time you've done it, Never let your past press you down.

Auliq Ice

#30. There are times in life when the best part of our life and the worst part seemingly coincide, especially those periods that demark commencement of significant personal transformation.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#31. Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.

Robin D. Hart

#32. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

Sakyong Mipham

#33. Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

Bud Harris

#34. Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.

Earl Nightingale

#35. If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.

John Stahl-Wert

#36. I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

Tracy Chapman

#37. Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!

Auliq Ice

#38. In order to have different things we must become someone different.

Matthew Donnelly

#39. I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

Anna White

#40. Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.

Bob Proctor

#41. On the surface, reality may appear the same each day, but in essence, we are new every moment of our lives. The potential for change and growth is unlimited if we allow ourselves to surrender to the flow.

Dorit Brauer

#42. Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#43. In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Carl R. Rogers

#44. Transformation is an acquired taste - not for the faint of heart.

Bob Anderson

#45. Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful ... get up and be America the beautiful.

Rivera Sun

#46. People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the outcome of a situation.

Lisa M. Schab

#47. You are a soul. You are a creator. You are an individual, absolutely and positively one of a kind. You are an energetic being of love with enough power inside of you to change this entire world forever.

Stephen Lovegrove

#48. I can feel my life changing and I'm not ready.

Jennifer Elisabeth

#49. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!

Auliq Ice

#50. Life's struggles are necessary for growth.

Auliq Ice

#51. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change

Renae A. Sauter

#52. Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change - Matthew Donnelly

Matthew Donnelly

#53. It's taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.

Auliq Ice

#54. If you read, you will transform your life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#55. How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it.

Matthew Donnelly

#56. A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#57. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

Auliq Ice

#58. Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

Edmund Phelps

#59. In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself ... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it.

Nkem Paul

#60. Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process.

Garry L. Landreth

#61. We live and learn, change and grow. Older, but not always wiser. Stronger but not necessarily smarter. Life is a dance of steps taken forward and backwards, time spent standing still, and twirling in circles as we follow our own shadows.

A.J. Compton

#62. Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

Harriet Lerner

#63. People interested in change and personal development need larger and larger environments in which to live. Their views expand. Their perspectives broaden. Their interests change. They seek bigger challenges. And they need people in their lives who will make room for their growth.

Steve Goodier

#64. Sometimes you can grow more in a shorter amount of time with the right company than years of soul-searching alone, or by living the same patterns you've lived for your entire life.

A.J. Darkholme

#65. As you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.

Charles F. Glassman

#66. Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

Deborah Day

#67. When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.

Whitney Johnson