Making Changes Quotes

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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.

  William Bridges

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Light tomorrow with today!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.494, Delphi Classics

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• Believe in yourself. Trust the process. Change forever.

  Bob Harper

  Motivational, Change, Trust

  Twitter post from Oct 17, 2012

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• You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

  Bruce Mau

  Inspirational, Change, Growth

  "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.

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• God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Change, God

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• The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Change, Years, Personality

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• One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

  Henry Cloud

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Dec 22, 2016

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• Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 17, 2012

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• It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

  Avi

  Inspirational, Change, Heart

  Avi (1972). “Snail Tale”

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  We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

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• With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.

  Wifredo Lam

  Life, Change, Art

  Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam (2002). “Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982”

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