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CHANGE QUOTES

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The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

* 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

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change. -- Barack Obama

* Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
-- Barack Obama

* 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

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”
--Keri Russell

* Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide
-- Meg Ryan

“People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.”
-- Meg Ryan

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
-- Anwar Sadat

 

We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.
-- Elisabet Sahtouris

 

* Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.  
--Edward Said

 

 

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
-- George Bernard Shaw

We can change the system by helping people see that there really is a movement for a better world emerging all around us.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

Learning to see the difference between things that we can change and things that we can't, is the first step to letting go and freeing ourselves from the burdens of guilt, regret and anger.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

The world is a dangerous place. But if we chose not to let fear control our lives, and instead stood up and worked together to change the way things are, this would be a much better world for everyone.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

“Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.”
-- Socrates

* Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.
-- David Suzuki

 

CHANGE QUOTES

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