925 private quotes tagged change

“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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“Nothing endures but change.” — Heraclitus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.” — Marc Andreessen

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

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“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.” — Albert Camus

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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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“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.” — Bill Gates

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