Personal Change Quotes

“Those who overcome great challenges will be changed, and often in unexpected ways. For our struggles enter our lives as unwelcome guests, but they bring valuable gifts. And once the pain subsides, the gifts remain. These gifts are life's true treasures, bought at great price, but cannot be acquired in any other way.”
― Steve Goodier

“Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.”
― Albert Bandura, Social Learning Theory

“We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I want you to know that some journeys have ends, but not this one. This one will change you. Irrevocably." "Don't all journeys change you?" "It isn't the same." He leaned forward. "I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars." "What did you find?" His voice turned lethally soft. "That it's just the beginning.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe”
― Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe Coloring Book

“The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.”
― Kristin Linklater, Freeing the Natural Voice

“Poetry could surely slow a guy down.”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments

“Undergoing personal change is a difficult but necessary process of maturing into the ultimate manifestation of a desirable self. True personal transformation requires a person honestly to assess their inner spirituality and adopt a clear vision of who they want to be. An earnest person experiencing inner transformation of their values and belief system is apt to feel conflicted, confused, and disorientated. Change of self is displacement, disarticulation, and loss of self. Alteration of our self-image results in disrupting, dislocating, and modifying a person’s perspective of what is significant.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way in, or that we don’t even know we want in.”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments

“The Christian life is a state of thankful discontent or joyful dissatisfaction. That is, I live every day thankful for the grace that has changed my life, but I am not satisfied. Why not? Because, when I look at myself honestly, I have to admit that I am not all I can be in Christ. I am thankful for the many things in my life that would not be there without his grace, but I will not settle for a partial inheritance!”
― Timothy S. Lane, How People Change

“It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.”
― Whitney Johnson, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work

“Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.”
― Jean Kilbourne, Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel

“One advantage of being in a long-term relationship with someone whom exhibits a strong personality is that when caught in the conduit of their force field, the resultant propulsion propels us to see both them as well as oneself in clearer light, thereby, opening a person’s eyes for constructive personal change.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Personal change requires motivation, a plan, and determination to see a plan through to fruition. Although I elected to change the way that I live, this decision was not easy to implement. We frequently act against our better judgment. We sometimes know the correct thing to do, but still struggle doing so. The Ancient Greeks used the term akrasia to refer to a person knowing what course of action is correct and righteous, but electing do somethings else because of a lack of self-control.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Reflection goes hand-in-hand with assessment and leads to long-lasting growth and change (in combination with action, of course).”
― Melissa Steginus, Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters

“Will asked the same questions as many times as he’d read the verse. What did Keats want to do, why would it take so many years, and what the hell ever got done just because a guy decided to overwhelm himself in poetry called by an old fashioned word?”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments

“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, Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive

“Every journey towards change begins with awareness.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“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, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Just like the seasons, people have the ability to change.”
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“It may feel as though the fixed mindset gave you your ambition, your edge, your individuality. Maybe you fear you'll become a bland cog in the wheel just like everyone else. Ordinary. But opening yourself up to growth makes you more yourself, not less.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Why don’t people 'look up'? In other words, why do they almost blindly do things that are counter to their well-being or survival?”
― L.L. Barkat, Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge

“Though we are trained to answer questions, the questions we ask will determine our future. Your life today is the result of your answer to a question such as:

: Is God real?
:Is God going to provide for me?
:Can I trust people?
:Am I capable of doing that?

The types of questions you ask have made you the way you are.”
― Randy Carlson, The Power of One Thing: How to Intentionally Change Your Life

“We have no control ultimately over what happens TO us, but we certainly have everything to do with what happens IN us because of what happens TO us. We must be more intimate with a mirror more than a projector. The reason why things don’t change for us is simply because we are not motivated to personally change. If we want things to get better in our sales, we must get better. That is the bottom line.”
― christopher gregas

“You cannot change the power of the wind, but you can set your sail in a way that will compel you to your port much more quickly and accurately. Business success is a process. Converting prospects takes time and the continual practice of planting wheat is always a challenge in a world where taking time and exhibiting patience are passing away. It is always a good day to make a change.”
― Chris J. Gregas

“This life of self-examination and joyful discontent should not be confused with a life of paralyzing self-condemnation. God does not call us to self-loathing, but to a willingness to examine our lives in light of our hope as new creatures in Christ. That hope is not only based on the promise of forgiveness, but on his promise of personal deliverance and restoration as well. The same grace that has forgiven me is now in the process of radically changing me. I should not be satisfied until that transformation is complete.”
― Timothy S. Lane, How People Change

“Hemingway writes of people becoming stronger in the broken places, which is a heartening thought, and sometimes true. All too often, though, it belongs in the file that Jim Webb labeled typical Hemingway bullshit.”
― Robert Timberg, The Nightingale's Song

“The gospel has never been about how bad we are. Maybe that's something you grew up learning from church or church people, or, maybe, like me, that's just how you perceived things. The gospel is always about how good God is. Always, always, always. So we shouldn't refrain from asking and seeking and knocking, because he loves us--each of us. And we can trust that what he gives us will be bread, even when it doesn't seem like it at the time.

I'm not trying to say we don't need to change our lives. I think every one of us needs to change our lives. But I don't think very many of us can just will ourselves to change... We all have to rely on the goodness of God. He is good. He provides in amazing ways.”
― Todd Tilghman, Every Little Win: How Celebrating Small Victories Can Lead to Big Joy

“Who you are is something that can live and die with you except you make a deliberate action towards changing who you are.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“People with strong feelings and of nervous temperament, for which one is no more responsible than for the colour of one's eyes, have things to fight against and to put up with, unknown to those of quiet equable dispositions, who are free from violent emotions, and have consequently no feeling of nerves -- still less, of irritable nerves. If I did not control mine they would be dreadful....One can overcome a great deal -- but -alter- one's self one cannot....

[Princess Alice, in a letter dated 24 September 1874]”
― Gerard Noel, Princess Alice: Queen Victoria's Forgotten Daughter