Quotes & Sayings About Change Benjamin Franklin

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life. — Benjamin Franklin

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them. — Benjamin Franklin

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems. — Benjamin Franklin

Anyone can complain, and they should have the right to, but if you want to see change you must act. Actions speak louder than words. Don't complain about things, change things. — Benjamin Franklin

There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen. — Benjamin Franklin

When you are finished changing, you are finished. — Benjamin Franklin

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon. — Benjamin Franklin

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly. — Benjamin Franklin

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It's asking us to stop calculating. It's asking us to do something for the plain old delight and interest of it, not because we can justify its place on the mental spreadsheet or accounting ledger (like the one Benjamin Franklin kept) by which we tote up the value of our actions. — Alan Jacobs

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire. — Benjamin Franklin

The way to be safe is never to be secure. — Benjamin Franklin