The Quotable Books Series ...

It's Time
for a Change

Thoughts on Change, Growth, Progress, Risk, and Evolution

(sample quotations from the book)

When you pray, move your feet. — African proverb

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. — Greg Anderson, author

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. — Maya Angelou, poet

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker, columnist

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. — Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

Good things in life are worth going for. If you want something, you can't be afraid to take a risk or two to get it. — Bobby in Toothless movie

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. — Pearl Buck, novelist

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller, character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off movie

Keep your mind open to change at all times. Welcome it. Court it. — Dale Carnegie, motivational author

There exists the Law of the Fallow Field. Simply stated, this Law holds that if nothing positive is planted in the garden, it will always revert to weeds. So, we have to continually plant each growing season exactly what it is we expect to grow. If nothing of value is planted, nothing of value will be harvested. — Brian Cavanaugh

If you don't change your direction, you will end up where you are headed. — Chinese proverb

If you’re going to try to change things, you’d better be prepared to find yourself in the headquarters of hell. — Madonna Circonne, singer and actress

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. — e. e. cummings, poet

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority is wrong. — Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader

Who says flying has to be the way it is? Something has to change. Hey, everything has to change. — Delta Airlines magazine advertisement

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world. And make it new again. — John Denver, singer and songwriter

We shall not cease from exploration.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot, poet, Little Gidding

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. — Marilyn Ferguson, author

If you don't take risks, you don't gain anything. — Bridget Fonda, actress

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank, author, The Diary of Anne Frank

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