Great Change Quotes

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Deepak Chopra

Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

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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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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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If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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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 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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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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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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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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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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I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Thinking, Down And, Sometimes

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In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military, War, Development

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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Josiah Strong

Change, Europe, Earthquakes

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

Tom Ford

Students, Responsible

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In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

John Naisbitt

Spiritual, Teacher, Philosophy

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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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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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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

John Herschel

Class, Ideas, Dancing

John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

Herbert Read

Children, Destiny, People

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This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty

Maxine Waters

Change, Real, War

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You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

George Orwell

War, Eye, Beer

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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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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

Martin Van Buren

Genius, World, Firsts

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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

Johan Huizinga

Form, Humans, Human Relations

"In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 20, 1936.

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