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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma Gandhi

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Tony Robbins

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Tony Robbins

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
John Lennon

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan

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

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne Dyer

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Aristotle

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

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

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