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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
β Confucius

Wisdom for Every Moment
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Things do not change; we change.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Change brings opportunity.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
There is nothing so stable as change.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.
To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
We need to be able to identify and support young people who demonstrate interest and aptitude in entrepreneurship and business creation and give them tools to follow this path throughout their educational experience.
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.
I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
The business end of business has never interested me.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
War is the business of barbarians.
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.