10 Motivating Quotes to Help You Change for the Better

Change is hard. It's easy to get set in our ways, so it often takes motivation to make positive changes in our lives. Here are a few quotes that hopefully will give you the motivation you need to make the changes you've always wanted to make.

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

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

♦ 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 can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Michael Jordan

♦ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin

♦ 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

♦ Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. Life’s Little Instruction Book

♦ 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.

♦ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

♦ Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau

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Sherrie Bourg Carter is the author of High Octane Women: How Superachievers Can Avoid Burnout (Prometheus Books, 2011).