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Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
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We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...
Every step toward the goal of justice
requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle;
the tireless exertions and
passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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