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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered read more
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
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Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
[Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco;
Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]
Things do not change, we do.
Things do not change, we do.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've read more
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can read more
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it read more
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion read more
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is read more
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.