"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance."

Change

Create & Download Quote Image

Customize Design

Theme Color

Insight & Reflection

The theme of change is universal, yet Richard M. Nixon manages to capture its essence in a uniquely profound way. Taking a moment to internalize this can shift our mindset, reminding us that our perspective on change often shapes our reality.

About Richard M. Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both houses of the United States Congress before serving as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.

More quotes by Richard M. Nixon →
Editorial Note: This quote is curated and fact-checked by the ShortQuote Editorial Team. Verified Literature Specialist.

More by Richard M. Nixon

"You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates."

— Richard M. Nixon
Read more →

"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that."

— Richard M. Nixon
Read more →

"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."

— Richard M. Nixon
Read more →

"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects."

— Richard M. Nixon
Read more →

More about Change

"All actors have to change their name."

— Jeremy Irvine
Read more →

"That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it."

— Martha Plimpton
Read more →

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."

— Will Durant
Read more →

"I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul."

— Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Read more →
View all Change quotes →