925 private quotes tagged change

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

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

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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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“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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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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