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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Change, Age, Wells

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the west, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.

  Aravind Adiga

  Important, Trying, India

  "Roars of anger". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.

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