925 private quotes tagged change

“Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.” — Mason Cooley

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“Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.” — Mason Cooley

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“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.” — Timothy Leary

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“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.” — John Wooden

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“The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.” — Dalai Lama

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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.” — Karl Marx

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“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” — Harry S. Truman

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“I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.” — Woody Allen

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“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” — Leo Tolstoy

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

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“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.” — Anna Quindlen

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“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.” — Eddie Vedder

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“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.” — Tony Robbins

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“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.” — Peter Drucker

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“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” — Keri Russell

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“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” — Jacob M. Braude

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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.” — Amelia Earhart

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“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” — Maya Angelou

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“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” — Confucius

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“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

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