Making Changes Quotes

• Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

  Barry Sheene

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Motivational, Change, Positivity

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• How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

  Peter Block

  Inspirational, Change, World

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• You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Profiles in Courageous Manhood”, Albury Pub

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 28, 2013

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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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• Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

  Michael Manley

  Inspirational, Change, People

  Michael Manley (1991). “The poverty of nations: reflections on underdevelopment and the world economy”, Pluto Pr

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• I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

  Thomas Paine

  Change, Freedom, Equality

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

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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, Change, Positive

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• Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

  Junot Diaz

  Inspirational, Change, Work

  Junot Diaz (2009). “Drown”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.

  Marianne Williamson

  Change, Prayer, Fall

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 03, 2011

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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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, Change

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

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• I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Life, Change, Letting Go

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• The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 31, 2011

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• We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

  Clark Moustakas

  Change, Strength, Being Yourself

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• Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

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• you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Letting Go, Aggravation, Done

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• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  Sam Elliott

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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