Success has made failures of many men.
~ Cindy Adams ~
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
~ Marian Anderson ~
The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.
~ Thurman W. Arnold ~
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41]
~ Bible ~
You are at enmity with yourself.
~ Jacob Boehme ~
I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
~ Giovani della Casa ~
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
~ Robert Collier ~
We are the prisoners of ideas.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
~ Margaret Gatty ~
I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.
~ Alistair Grant ~
Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.
~ Tom Hopkins ~
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
~ Vernon Howard ~
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
~ Lord Kames ~
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
~ John F. Kennedy ~
The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it should do, and a part that does what it feels like doing.
~ John Cantwell Kiley ~
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.
~ Albert Low ~
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the "conscious" mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "hearts," or intuition, another.
~ Robert E. Ornstein ~
The war existing between the senses and reason.
~ Blaise Pascal ~
Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, ... a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world.
~ Frederick Salomon Perls ~
Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
~ German Proverb ~
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
~ Joseph Roux ~
When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
~ Walter Russell ~
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
~ James Thurber ~
Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.
~ Yogabindu Upanishad ~
The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.
~ William T. Walsh ~
It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
~ Thornton Wilder ~
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda ~
|
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
~ A Course In Miracles ~
The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.
~ Abernathy ~
It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.
~ General Adalphos ~
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
~ Saul Alinsky ~
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
~ Mary S. Almanac ~
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
~ Lisa Alther ~
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
~ Lady Nancy Astor ~
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
~ Pearl Bailey ~
People can cry much easier than they can change.
~ James Baldwin ~
If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
~ Gita Bellin ~
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.
~ Helena Petrova Blavatsky ~
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
~ Nathaniel Branden ~
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
~ Jacob M. Braude ~
Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
~ Les Brown ~
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
~ Lyman L. Bryson ~
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
~ Buddha ~
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
~ Warren Buffett ~
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
~ Carol Burnett ~
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
~ George Burns ~
Give wind and tide a chance to change.
~ Richard E. Byrd ~
The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about, around, and underneath" man, except man himself.
~ Lord Byron ~
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
~ Thomas Carlyle ~
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
~ Joyce Cary ~
In pain is a new time born.
~ Adelbert Von Chamisso ~
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
~ Karen Kaiser Clark ~
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
~ Henry S. Commager ~
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
~ Confucius ~
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
~ Stephen R. Covey ~
Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
~ Fanny Crosby ~
Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.
~ Thomas Crum ~
Don't fear change -- embrace it.
~ Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~ Charles Darwin ~
It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.
~ William B. Davis ~
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~ Jimmy Dean ~
We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.
~ Max Depree ~
Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.
~ Jeff Dewar ~
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
~ Charles Dickens ~
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~
The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
~ William O. Douglas ~
Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
~ John W. Draper ~
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
~ William Drayton ~
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
~ Elizabeth C. Dunn ~
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
~ Albert Einstein ~
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
~ Lucius C. Falkland ~
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
~ Owen Felltham ~
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
~ Marilyn Ferguson ~
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
~ James Dillet Freeman ~
Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
~ J. William Galbraith ~
We must become the change we want to see.
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
Music can't change the world.
~ Bob Geldof ~
One person's constant is another person's variable.
~ Susan Gerhart ~
Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.
~ Joan Gilbertson ~
If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
~ Peter Gilcrest ~
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
~ Woody Guthrie ~
Times change, and we change with them.
~ William Harrison ~
There is nothing permanent except change.
~ Heraclitus ~
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
~ Herodotus ~
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
~ Richard Hooker ~
Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.
~ Trinidad Hunt ~
Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
~ Elspeth Huxley ~
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
~ Washington Irving ~
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
~ Jesse Jackson ~
I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.
~ Nelson Jackson ~
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
~ Kabbalah ~
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
~ Alphonse Karr ~
For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.
~ Kearney ~
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
~ Charles Kingsley ~
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
~ Paul Klee ~
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
~ Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ~
A rut is a grave with no ends.
~ Alan Lampkin ~
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
~ Bruce Lee ~
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini ~
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.
~ Laurence J. Mcginley ~
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
~ Mignon McLaughlin ~
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
~ Sir Peter Medawar ~
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
~ Menander of Athens ~
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.
~ Mohammed ~
When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
~ Susanna Moodie ~
People don't change. Only there costumes do.
~ Gene Moorse ~
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
~ John Naisbitt ~
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.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
~ Herbert A. Otto ~
I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.
~ John Petworth ~
Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.
~ Irene Porter ~
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
~ Hugh Prather ~
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
~ Portuguese Proverb ~
When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.
~ Lew Richfield ~
I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
~ Anthony Robbins ~
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
~ John Ruskin ~
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
~ Nolan Ryan ~
Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
~ Caroline Schoeder ~
You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
~ Robert H. Schuller ~
We need to change so we can remain the same.
~ Dorothy Serrity ~
People do no change with the times, they change the times.
~ P.K. Shaw ~
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.
~ Richard Shelton ~
A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.
~ Rex Steven Sikes ~
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
~ Marsha Sinetar ~
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.
~ Art Spander ~
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
~ Herbert Spencer ~
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon ~
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
~ Bill Tilden ~
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
~ Alvin Toffler ~
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
~ Count Leo Tolstoy ~
Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
~ Mo Udall ~
It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.
~ Source Unknown ~
It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?
~ Source Unknown ~
People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.
~ Source Unknown ~
Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.
~ Source Unknown ~
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
~ Denis Waitley ~
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.
~ Lech Walesa ~
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
~ Lynn White ~
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
~ Harold Wilson ~
Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.
~ Kirsten Zambucka ~
|
