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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Matter, Fortune

  "The Civil War". Book by Julius Caesar translated by Jane P. Gardner (Book III, Chapter 68), 47 BC.

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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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• We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

  Dane Cook

  Break Through, Scary, Kind

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• No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

  John Stuart Mill

  Change, Thinking, Fundamentals

  'Autobiography' (1873) ch. 7

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• Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

  Thomas Friedman

  Change, Optimistic, Optimism And Pessimism

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• It is important to distinguish between the power of the internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  Naomi Wolf

  Real, Political, Important

  "Organising against the enemies of internet freedom" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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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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• Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

  Thomas Friedman

  Done, Positive Change, Optimist

  "Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world". Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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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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• When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Majority Rule

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 12 Sept. 1918 See Ibsen 16; Sydney Smith 14

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• Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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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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• 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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