Quotes About Change

Mother Teresa said it so well: 'If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.

Most people believe that it takes months and years to transform their lives. Actually, you can literally change your life in an instant by making a single decision never to go back to the way you have been living—no matter what. What takes months, years and sometimes decades is the maintenance required to live by that decision.

Yesterday you told me that life is a growth school, Father Mike. Every person and every experience comes to us to teach us the lesson we most need to learn at that particular point of our journey. We can either awaken to this act of nature, or we can turn a blind eye to it and, in doing so, keep repeating the mistakes of the past until the pain becomes so great that we have no choice but to change.

I thought that, ultimately, life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes, and I felt certain that the choice I had made was the right one. I knew my life would never be the same and that something marvellous, maybe even miraculous, was about to happen to me. It was an amazing awakening.

I stopped wearing expensive clothes, I kicked my addiction to six newspapers a day

we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.

You need not change your world in a day. Start off small. The thousand-mile journey begins by taking that first step. We grow great by degrees. Small daily steps lead to stunning results over time.

There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change.

If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.' 

Si te encuentras con un resultado que no esperabas y te sientes decepcionado, recuerda que las leyes de la naturaleza especifican que cuando una puerta se cierra otra se abre.

Those people who think the same thoughts every day, most of them negative, have fallen into bad mental habits. Rather than focusing on all the good in their lives and thinking of ways to make things even better, they are captives of their pasts.

rewarding and often breathtakingly beautiful. Fundamental personal change is often painful because it is so very transformational. And we cannot become everything we are meant to be without leaving behind who we once were.

A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions.

as André Gide observed, "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

You can find your cause—your crusade—exactly where you are. No one has to leave a job to find something to engage their heart and excite them. Often all that is required is that a person see things differently. And to take that first step. Today.

in this age of great ambiguity and relentless change, so many people cut "ethical corners". Too many people think that dishonesty will get them ahead.

Within the covers of a single book are ideas that, if acted upon, have the power to rescript every part of your life.

A caterpillar cannot remain in the cocoon forever. A butterfly must emerge when the time is right. Just trust in nature's timing; it's not on the same clock as you. Remember that always. Your pain will pass—it always does.

Todo cambio es duro al principio, desordenado a la mitad y precioso al final».

Nothing changes until you change.

Finding your calling doesn't mean you must leave the job you now have. It simply means you need to bring more of yourself into your work and focus on the things you do best. It means you have to stop waiting for other people to make the changes you desire and, as Mahatma Gandhi noted: "Be the change that you wish to see most in your world." And once you do, your life will change.

Spring has passed, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that i meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.

Remember, on the other side of your fears, lives your growth.

will all happen