Change Quotes - Page 29

• By changing nothing, nothing changes.

  Tony Robbins

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

  Zig Ziglar

  Forgiveness, Ambition, Men

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• Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Earth Life, Chance, Sometimes

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Happiness, Struggle

  Viktor E. Frankl (1966). “Man's Search for Meaning”

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• The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

  Robert Frost

  Heart, Dust, Snow

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.25, UPNE

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• We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

  Kathleen Norris

  Inspirational, Past, Doe

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fashion changes, but style endures.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Life Changing, Style

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• Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Courage, Men, Yield

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Helping, Bigger

  Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.33, Penguin

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• I'm an optimist.
  I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past.
  And I also believe I have a role in that.
  The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change.
  I can do better.
  If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Inspirational, Life, Business

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.

  George Benson

  Music, Thinking, Creating

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• It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Positive, Peace, Kindness

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• We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.

  Willis Harman

  Military, Life Changing, Power

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• If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  God, Christian, Learning

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• It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.

  Richard Bach

  Motivational, Moving On, Goodbye

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• I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

  Donald Miller

  Walking Away, Mind, Want

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend on others and others depend on us, our outlook will change. We’ll begin to see 'others' not as somehow distant from us, but as people we are in touch with, people close to us; we will no longer feel indifferent to them.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

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• 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

  Time, Stars, Men

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• People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Health, People, Weight

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• Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

  Avi

  Inspirational, Heart, Eye

  Avi (1972). “Snail Tale”

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• You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.

  Bill McKibben

  Morning, Work, Thinking

  "The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2011.

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• The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

  Reid Hoffman

  Motivational, Business, People

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• We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

  Donald M. Nelson

  Inspirational, Positive, Acceptance

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