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Most Famous Change Your Life Quotes
Change, like healing, takes time. Veronica Roth
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude Oprah Winfrey
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Hillel
Every day the clock resets. Your wins don’t matter. Your failures don’t matter. Don’t stress on what was, fight for what could be. Sean Higgins
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. Stephen Chbosky
Don’t let rejection create self doubt. The founder of Starbucks was turned down by 217 of the 242 investors he initially spoke with. Elizabeth Galbut
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. Mother Teresa
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new Socrates
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Nikos Kazantzakis
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Albert Einstein
There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions. William James
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. Sydney J. Harris
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi
Change before you have to. Jack Welch
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better Plutarch
Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future John F. Kennedy
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. Mary Shelley
If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward Martin Luther King Jr.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said ‘Don’t change anything. Henry Ford
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t. Steve Maraboli
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama
I have accepted fear as part of life specifically the fear of change I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. Erica Jong
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. Mother Teresa
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. Walter Mosley
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. Jimi Hendrix
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. Wayne W. Dyer
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world Malala Yousafzai
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude Oprah Winfrey
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. Eckhart Tolle
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. Bill Clinton
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Things don’t have to change the world to be important Steve Jobs
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works? Diane Duane
Every day the clock resets. Your wins don’t matter. Your failures don’t matter. Don’t stress on what was, fight for what could be. Sean Higgins
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. Roy T. Bennett
What’s dangerous is not to evolve. Jeff Bezos
Fashion changes, but style endures. Coco Chanel
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
Miracles happen every day, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you. Jon Bon Jovi
You cannot change what you are, only what you do. Philip Pullman
You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. Ralph Marston
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith
Just take any step, whether small or large. And then another and repeat day after day. It may take months, maybe years, but the path to success will become clear Aaron Ross
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Stephen King, The Green Mile
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. Helen Keller
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. Madonna
If your startup builds a room full of pessimists and you have one optimist at the table, then I think you’re in the wrong business. But the other way around is invaluable and necessary David Cohen
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. Shannon L. Alder
There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others it only changes yours. Shannon Alder
If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better. Philip Vang
If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. John A. Simone, Sr.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Dr. Suess
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. Malala Yousafzai
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds. Jacque Fresco
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. Andy Warhol
Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at. Jason Lemkin
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t. Stephen King, The Stand
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. Johnny Cash
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. Brene Brown
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston S. Churchill
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. Walt Disney
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. And what is a grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. Haruki Murakami
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. Steve Jobs
Nonresistance, non judgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting. Judith Minty
It is our failure to accept people exactly as they are that gives us pain in a relationship.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road Unless you fail to make the turn. Helen Keller
We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A life lived for oneself alone is not liberation, but merely another form of bondage.
Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change. Roy T. Bennett
Healing is a return to love. Illness and death are often painful lessons in how much we love, but they are lessons nonetheless. Sometimes it takes the knife that emotionally pierces our heart, to pierce the walls that lie in front of it.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy
People who have the most to teach us are often the ones who reflect back to us the limits to our own capacity to love.
Change begins at the end of your comfort zone. Roy T. Bennett
True love, in the evolutionary sense, means peace of mind. ‘Still waters run deep’ is a good way of characterizing it.
