Quotes About Change

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Man's habits change more rapidly than his instincts.

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might.

If you can love abstractly, you're only a bad day away from hating abstractly.

Faced with the choice of changing one's mind versus proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone opts for the latter.

The season has shed its mantle of wind and chill and rain.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

But the little girl growing up still hisses a tune, that of the cottage train. (Mais la petite fille qui grandit siffle toujours un air, celui du train de la chaumière)"

Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent Le passé, non l'avenir)

Hundred people enter more easily than a giant. A big reform passes less than a hundred of small. (Cent gens entrent mieux qu'un géant. - Une grosse réforme passe moins que cent.)

No elevator of progress with wells of prejudices. (Pas d'ascenseur de progrès - Avec puits de préjugés.)

People are no longer afraid of him.The spirit and the time are with him. (Il ne fait plus peur. L'esprit et le temps sont avec lui.)"

People conjugate to the present; politics to other tenses. (Peuple conjugue au présent; - Politique aux autres temps.)

Rails that kiss derail; Rails that deviate, too. (Rails qui s'embrassent déraillent; Rails qui s'écartent de même)"

She realized then that time passes, but the imagination remains, even if it does not seem to exist. (Elle comprit alors que le temps passe, mais l'imagination reste, même si cela semble ne pas exister)"