Change Quotes - Page 9

• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

  Anatole France

  Life, People Changing, Criminal Mind

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

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• Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Belief, Changed, Power To Change

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• If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life Changing, Mean, Feelings

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2012). “Social Responsibility”, p.72, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Sight

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Change everything except your loves.

  Voltaire

  Love

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

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

  Stephen King

  Time, Life Changing, Want

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Life Lesson

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• It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Usual, May

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• Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, People, Growth

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

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

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• You only have control over three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determines everything you experience. If you don't like what you are producing and experiencing, you have to change your responses.

  Jack Canfield

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 24, 2012

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• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

  W. H. Auden

  Religion, Growth, Moments

  Wystan Hugh Auden (2011). “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

  Phil Crosby

  Fear, Mean, Slowness

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Intelligent, Inevitable, Constant

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• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, Existence, Geology

  "What is Civilization?". Ladies' Home Journal, Volume LXIII, January 1946.

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  In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Order, Inner Peace

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.230, A&C Black

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• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life Changing, Yoga, Liberty

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• I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Money, Dollars

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiring, Life Changing, Rich

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• Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2015

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• Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

  David Richo

  Mean, Humility, Reality

  David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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