Quotes by Authors - Page 205

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
My specialty is detached malevolence.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.
Saki
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.
Robert Burton
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.
Dean William R. Inge
The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.
Lady Constance Lytton
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock
It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
Eric Hoffer
I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Margaret Thatcher
I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
John Bradshaw
I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz
Good but not religious-good.
Thomas Hardy
At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Oscar Wilde
As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.
Robert Whittington
Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce
Everything changes but change.
Israel Zangwill
There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust
Things do not change we change.
Henry David Thoreau
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change.
Carl Rogers
There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
Odell Shepard
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence to change.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.
Arthur Christopher Benson
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment my life changed.
Shirley Maclaine
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson
When you have a baby you set off an explosion in your marriage and when the dust settles your marriage is different from what it was. Not better necessarily not worse necessarily but different.
Nora Ephron
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness and of the mystery of change.
Alice Meynell
The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.
Kristin Hunter
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Rollo May
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb and to seek the mountain view.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The mind of the most logical thinker goes so easily from one point to another that it is not hard to mistake motion for progress.
Margaret Collier Graham
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.
Sonia Johnson
If folks can learn to be racist then they can learn to be antiracist. If being sexist ain't genetic then dad gum people can learn about gender equality.
Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders.
Rabindranath Tagore
To remain young one must change.
Alexander Chase
If you do what you've always done you'll get what you've always gotten.
Anonymous
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
Anonymous
The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations disturbances imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Continuity gives us roots change gives us branches letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
Pauline R. Kezer
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Dodie Smith
Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
In embracing change entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder
None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
Kathleen Norris
There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
Myrtle Reed
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.
Agatha Christie
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C.S. Lewis
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.
Hal Borland
The basic fact of today is the tremendous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
You must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey