Julia Gillard Quotes

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

The only way round is through.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

We don't have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isn't working, we can and should change.

Progress does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability.

Change takes courage.

Change is hard, but change is good.

Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.

Anything worth changing is not easy to change.

It's difficult to change things in a positive way.

Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.