Change Quotes

Where do we begin this process of reevaluation of values? It makes sense to begin with our mind, which is the tool we use to evaluate. Once we make sure it is functioning as it should, we can feel confident in using it to think about our beliefs and priorities.

~ Ilchi Lee

Conscience is the true power. It resides within us. The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world. !is intention and willingness is of course ethical choice, but it is also the most natural, reasonable, and intelligent choice when we realize what we really are. If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.

~ Ilchi Lee

Basically it is your choice. No matter what spiritual path you have taken, no matter what experiences you have had, choice is still choice. Spiritual development doesn’t happen automatically. It is choosing the eye of Tao that sees both the whole view of things from a distance and the core of reality from deep inside.

~ Ilchi Lee

In order to recognize the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the Truth; and to explain the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the recognition. This is why a wordsmithed Truth is nothing but a shadow of the shadow of the Truth. If Buddha had yawned instead of holding up a fower, would that gesture have been any less representative of the Truth?

~ Ilchi Lee

James looked at the people around his table. He stared at each one of them as though he were looking at a magic-eye puzzle and he could see all of the different pieces and the colours but not beyond what was on the surface, and the more he tried, the depth, the revealing images, were kept away from him.

~ Tan Redding

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

The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

so far as you continue to entertain what makes you unhappy, you shall always dance to the tune of what will make you unhappy. A mindset change can cause a great change.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.

~ Tina Samples

Leaders don’t call unhappy followers “ungrateful people”. They see them as “lesson teachers”. They find out why they are unhappy, perhaps it could be as a result of their attitudes. That informs them to change!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.

~ Christopher Hitchens

You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

It is naive to think you know someone so well.To think that whatever time you have shared in knowing their habits, their history, their stories, their weaknesses, their strengths, their wounds, and deepest corners of their heart could ever sum them up-- is unjust.It is a shame to be unaware of the shifts and changes that happen every day, every moment, right before your eyes. The little crinkles around her eyes that get ever-so-slightly deeper and wiser. The silver linings of her hair. The wonders of time and how they show their presence in such ways. You may think that a flower is simply a flower. A flower that looks and smells just as simply as it always has. Or that the ocean is simply salt water and blue. The flower is always moving, changing, blossoming, and giving life to the birds and the bees. The ocean's tides rise and fall with the phases of the moon. The currents change direction. And depending on how the sun hits the water, the colors and shades of blue are in fact, infinite. Everything around you and everyone is always changing. Take time to smell the roses. Take time to watch the tide. Take time to see your love with new eyes. It would be a shame to miss it.

~ Kayko Tamaki

The fall of the nation, there is no;Faithfulness, Kindness and Knowledge of God in your sacred land.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As a leader, you will see things you may never like to see; yours is to correct those things so that next time you open your eyes, you will see better things you wish to be seeing always. Leaders learn to right the wrong of society.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you read, you will transform your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

~ Andrew Zolli

You can’t lead people if you aren’t going to focus on what’s relevant to you and them. Don’t worry about who is and who is not watching you. Consider what you have to watch.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

~ Oli Anderson

We are transformed by every sacred-experience.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?

~ Miguel Syjuco

Accept changes but be persistent with the process.

~ Debasish Mridha

Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.

~ Ammar Moussa (عمار موسى)

God’s power is able to change stony, stubborn heart to kind, responsive heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our sins are our downfall. We must repent and return to the Lord. And He will receive and forgive us graciously.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

[The Church] has lived through its early travails and has now come to accept an easier way of life. It is content to carry on its painless program with enough money to pay its bills and a membership large enough to assure its future. Its members now look to it for security rather than for guidance in the battle between good and evil. It has become a school instead of a barracks. Its members are students, not soldiers. They study the experiences of others instead of seeking new experiences of their own.

~ A.w. Tozer

We can experience a change of heart by divine grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of grace transforms the heart of men.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The divine moment is the grace of life-change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not enough to believe. Believe must lead to change of attitude and conduct.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.

~ Scott Hammerle

Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders are solutions conscious. They don’t complain. You would find them repeating this common question; “how will it be done, and by who?

~ Israelmore Ayivor