16 Powerful Quotes to Unlock Change in the New Year Change starts with just a thought. Check out these quotes from inspiring change makers throughout history.
By Carolyn Sun
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During this time of year, many of us are thinking about the goals we want to achieve or the habits we want to start or stop. However, change is hard, and it can be a discouraging effort, particularly when we don't get the results we want. However, the mere act of trying is a massive step forward. After all, change is an ongoing process, not a light switch.
So for all of you out there who want to make change in your lives, here are inspirational quotes about change from 17 incredible historic figures that will help keep you fired up.
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Prince Williams | Getty ImagesOprah Winfrey
"Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create."
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Marla Aufmuth | Getty ImagesSheryl Sandberg
"It is the hard days, the times that challenge you to your very core, that determine who you are."
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Jean-Claude FRANCOLON | Gamma-Rapho | Getty ImagesMother Theresa
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."
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Otto Herschan | Getty ImagesRalph Waldo Emerson
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
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Larry Morris | Getty ImagesMaya Angelou
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
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Keystone | Getty ImagesAlbert Einstein
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
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Bettmann | Getty ImagesGolda Meir
"Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
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Ray Fisher | The LIFE Images Collection | Getty ImagesEstée Lauder
"I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it."
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Craig Sjodin | ABC | Getty ImagesDolly Parton
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
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PhotoQuest | Getty ImagesMark Twain
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
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Bettmann | Getty imagesNorman Vincent Peale
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
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Jesse Grant | Getty ImagesShonda Rhimes
"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."
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Hulton Archive | Getty ImagesTheodore Roosevelt
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
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Ron Galella, Ltd | Getty ImagesErica Jong
"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
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Herbert Dorfman | Corbis | Getty ImagesLucille Ball
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."
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Johnny Nunez | Getty ImagesMichael Jordan
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
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