Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Popular condensed version of a passage in Three Methods of Reform (1900)
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Leo Tolstoy quotes
1828-1910 · Writers and poets
Russian novelist, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
4 quotes, 3 traced to where Tolstoy said or wrote them.
Patience and time are my warriors, my champions.
War and Peace (1869), thought of General Kutuzov
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina (1877), opening line
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
War and Peace (1869)