Great Change Quotes

• All great changes are preceded by chaos.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 16, 2014

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Change, Moving On, Clever

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”

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• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Brian Tracy, Azim Jamal (2016). “What You Seek Is Seeking You”, p.139, Jaico Publishing House

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• Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

  Andy Law

  Change, Giving Up, Forever

  Andy Law (1999). “Creative Company: How St. Luke's Became "the Ad Agency to End All Ad Agencies"”, Wiley

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• Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

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• Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

  Lucretia Mott

  Foundation, Privilege, Shakes

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• In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

  James Madison

  Government, Giving, Substance

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.84, Arcturus Publishing

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• The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

  Dan Simmons

  Cancer, Order, Roles

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1086, Spectra

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• The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

  Dennis C. Blair

  Religious, Kings, Nice

  "Former US spy chief sees shift toward Asia". Interview with Elizabeth Dickinson, www.csmonitor.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

  Tom Ford

  Students, Responsible

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• To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

  John Masefield

  Life, Has Beens, Great Hope

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• In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

  Christina Aguilera

  Order, Community, Needs

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• It is not well to make great changes in old age.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Change, Age, Wells

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• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  Salman Rushdie

  Culture, World, Urban

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• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

  Ronald Reagan

  Change, America, Presidential

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

  Quintilian

  Effects

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• It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Rap, Thinking

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• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

  Dean Koontz

  Small Changes, Storm, World

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.327, Bantam

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• Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

  Emma Goldman

  Change, Race, Vision

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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