"One Day or Day One?" – You Decide: 38 Quotes to Finally Make the Change You Want In Life
A curated list of quotes on growth, acceptance, transformation and creating new beginnings.
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Use these quotes to help you foster change in your life. Make new decisions. And naturally accept the journey that life has for you with the utmost grace and ease.
One day or day one. You decide.
– Unknown
What if you stopped trying to think your way through it and started to act your way through it?
– James Clear
No matter how bad things are right now, no matter how stuck you feel, no matter how many days you've spent crying and wishing things were different, no matter how hopeless and depressed you feel, I promise you that you won't feel this way forever. Keep going.
– Helen Wilson
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
– George Bernard Shaw
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
– Dale Carnegie
A good way to move on is to cut all ties to what you are leaving. No contact, no reminders.
– Unknown
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
– Alfred Edward Perlman
If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
– Angelina Jolie
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
– Carl Jung
The ultimate form of optimization is elimination. Nothing is more effective than removing the ineffective.
– James Clear
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
– Japanese Proverb
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. The real fear should be of the opposite course.
– Gail Sheehy
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
– Lu Xun
Not everyone has the opportunity for a fresh start, take yours and make a life you're proud of.
– Unknown
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.
– Germany Kent
Old ways won't open new doors.
– Unknown
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
– Deepak Chopra
Many people delay taking action because they hope to avoid suffering. They keep searching for a path that won’t involve tradeoffs. But some form of suffering is always inevitable. The process of taking action is the process of choosing your pain.
– James Clear
Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.
– Roy T. Bennett
If you want to find a better path, you have to be willing to explore a different path. That sounds simple, but how often do you try something different?
– James Clear
Whatever experience you’re having right now, it has not come to stay. It has come to pass.
– Les Brown
Change is inevitable. Growth is intentional.
– Glenda Cloud
You can't start the next chapter if you keep rereading the last.
– Unknown
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
– Socrates
Let go a little and just let life happen. Because sometimes the truths you can't change, end up changing you and helping you grow.
– Unknown
If you genuinely care about the goal, you’ll focus on the system.
– James Clear
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours—it is an amazing journey—and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
– Bob Moawad
The desire to improve does not have to come from a place of self-loathing.
– James Clear
Hard memories need time to let go, but don't let them keep eating away at your happiness.
– Unknown
I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.
– Susan Sontag
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
– John Maxwell
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
– Abraham Maslow
You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
– Deepak Chopra
Remember that life's greatest lessons are usually learned from the worst times and from the worst mistakes.
– Unknown
No life circumstances are 100 percent negative. Every negative circumstance also contains its opposite, and so there is something good buried within every seemingly bad situation.
Life is not about the negative circumstances that happen to you, it’s about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!
– Rhonda Byrne
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
– Nora Roberts
When choosing a new habit many people seem to ask themselves, What can I do on my best days? The trick is to ask, What can I stick to even on my worst days? Start small. Master the art of showing up. Scale up when you have the time, energy, and interest.
– James Clear
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