925 private quotes tagged change

“In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.” — Stephen Hawking

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“There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.” — Josh Billings

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“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” — Carl Jung

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“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.” — Robert Frost

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“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.

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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts

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“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” — John Wooden

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“The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.” — Roger Ebert

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“Change alone is unchanging.” — Heraclitus

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“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.” — Edmund Burke

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“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Change before you have to.” — Jack Welch

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“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.” — Bill Gates

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

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“There is nothing permanent except change.” — Heraclitus

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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” — Francis Bacon

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“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.” — André Gide

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“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” — Robert Frost

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“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” — Plutarch

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