2,741 quotes
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