925 private quotes tagged change

“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.” — Muhammad Ali

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

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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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“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Nothing endures but change.” — Heraclitus

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“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” — Will Durant

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“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.” — Alexander Pope

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“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” — Niels Bohr

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“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” — Brian Tracy

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“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.” — Plato

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“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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“I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?” — Yogi Berra

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“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.” — Ambrose Bierce

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