Real Change Quotes

• Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Real, Ego, Steps

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.145, Image

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• If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, Real, People

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• Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Change, Motivation, Real

  Scilla Elworthy (1997). “Power and Sex: Developing Inner Strength to Deal with the World”, Element Books Limited

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• Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Hero, Initiative

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• Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Bottom

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

  Guy Finley

  Real, Firsts, Facts

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• All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?

  Debbie Ford

  Change, Morning, Real

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• Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.

  Joseph C. Rost

  Real, Leader, Purpose

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• Only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real change take place.

  Ilchi Lee

  Real, Who You Are

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Feb 03, 2014

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  Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

  Tom Ford

  Life, Change, Fashion

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

  Jack Welch

  Real, People, Agents

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• Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

  Michel'le

  Real, Focus, Bigs

  "Michelle Obama: 49 Reasons We Love The First Lady, On Her 49th Birthday" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.

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• I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

  Nelson Mandela

  Kindness, Real, Believe

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• If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

  Larry Crabb

  Pain, Real, Struggle

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Believe, Progress

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Real, Commitment

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• I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Real, Want, Littles

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Senior, Powerful, Real

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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• Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

  Rick Larsen

  Real, America, Needs

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• He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Real, Differences

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• The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

  Nikki Haley

  Real, People, Support

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• There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

  Woody Allen

  Real, People, Age

  "Woody Allen Interview – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

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• The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Real, Tired

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• ... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Real, Together We Can, People

  Rigoberta Menchú (2009). “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)”, p.289, Verso Books

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• Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Change, Real, Fighting

  "New Day" by Chris Cuomo, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2015.

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