925 private quotes tagged change

“We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.” — Abu Bakar Bashir

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“The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.” — Drew Barrymore

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“Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.” — Jim Rohn

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“Don't fear change - embrace it.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.” — Pope Paul VI

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“I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.” — Michael Phelps

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“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.” — Al Gore

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“We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.” — Serj Tankian

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“I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” — Richard Nelson Bolles

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“I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.” — Jose Mourinho

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“There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.” — Tiger Woods

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“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.” — John Motson

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“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” — Mike Murdock

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“I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.” — John Cleese

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“Logic will never change emotion or perception.” — Edward de Bono

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“Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.” — John Henry Newman

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“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.” — Abel Ferrara

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“Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.” — Miriam Makeba

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“Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.” — Pat Robertson

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“We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.” — Dan Quayle

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“I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.” — Dante Alighieri

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“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” — Harold Wilson

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“I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.” — Ricky Williams

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