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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jesse Jackson

Activist · American · b. 1941

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

Nancy Astor

Politician · British · 1879 – 1964

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Harold MacMillan

Politician · English · 1894 – 1986

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Lewis Mumford

Sociologist · American · 1895 – 1990

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Judd Gregg

Politician · American · b. 1947

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

Chris Van Allsburg

Author · American · b. 1949

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Eleanor Clift

Journalist · American

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Thomas Jefferson

President · American · 1743 – 1826

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Franz Liszt

Composer · Hungarian · 1811 – 1886

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli

Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Alexander Hamilton

Politician · American · 1755 – 1804

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Bertrand Russell

Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard P. Feynman

Physicist · American · 1918 – 1988

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Jim Rohn

Businessman · American

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

Daniel Berrigan

Clergyman · American · b. 1921

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

Poet · American · 1878 – 1937

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Henry Ellis

Psychologist · British · b. 1859

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Victor Hugo

Author · French · 1802 – 1885

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Yoko Ono

Artist · American · b. 1933

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Tom Peters

Businessman · American · b. 1942

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Madame de Stael

Writer · French · 1766 – 1817

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Gloria Steinem

Activist · American · b. 1934

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

James Monroe

President · American · 1758 – 1831

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Andrew Young

Clergyman · American · b. 1932

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Susan George

Activist · American · b. 1950

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

Rick Larsen

Politician · American · b. 1965

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Frank Howard Clark

Writer · American

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

Temple Grandin

Educator · American · b. 1947

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Warren Buffett

Businessman · American · b. 1930

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

Adolf Galland

Soldier · German · 1912 – 1996

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

Paul Wellstone

Politician · American · 1944 – 2002

There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.

Harvey Pekar

Writer · American · b. 1939

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Laurence Sterne

Novelist · Irish · 1713 – 1768

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Writer · Greek · 1883 – 1957

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

President · American · 1882 – 1945

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Dean Koontz

Author · American · b. 1945

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

Writer · American · b. 1937

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

Gordon Getty

Businessman · American · b. 1934

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

Valerie Jarrett

Lawyer · American · b. 1956

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

Eric S. Raymond

Author · American · b. 1957

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

Poet · Roman

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

Poet · American · 1819 – 1891

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Philosopher · Roman

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Bryant H. McGill

Poet · American · b. 1969

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

Niklas Zennstrom

Scientist · Swedish

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Herbert Hoover

President · American · 1874 – 1964

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Earl Warren

Judge · American · 1891 – 1974

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

Writer · English · 1874 – 1936

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