925 private quotes tagged change

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

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

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“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” — Michael Jordan

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

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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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“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” — Plutarch

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

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

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

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

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

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“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” — Confucius

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