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George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Topic: Change
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Both optimist and pessimist contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw

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Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. — George Bernard Shaw

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. — George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. — George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. — George Bernard Shaw

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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. — George Bernard Shaw

More on Change

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa

you will be the same unless you do something different. — Jeffrey Benjamin

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou

Change Inspiration

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Lao-tzu

Adversity Change Pain

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. — Jonathan Swift

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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be, exactly what we wish. — Anthony Robbins

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. — Albert Einstein

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. — Victor Hugo

Change Choice Life Principle

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

Attitude Change

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

› Ronald Reagan

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

› Marcus Aurelius

Change Freedom Leadership Liberty

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. — Mark Twain

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Nothing endures but change. — Heraclitus

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. — Norman Vincent Peale

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Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. — Dalai Lama

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. — Benjamin Franklin

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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. — Walt Disney

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Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. — Thomas Edison

Change Innovation

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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When you're finished changing, you're finished. — Benjamin Franklin

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks about changing him or herself. — Leo Tolstoy

Change Self Thinking

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

Change Education Power

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming—well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. — Amy Tan

Change Dreams Hope

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