Quotes & Sayings About Change Winston Churchill

Sara Kendell once read somewhere that the tale of the world is like a tree. The tale, she understood, did not so much mean the niggling occurrences of daily life. Rather it encompassed the grand stories that caused some change in the world and were remembered in ensuing years as, if not histories, at least folktales and myths. By such reasoning, Winston Churchill could take his place in British folklore alongside the legendary Robin Hood; Merlin Ambrosius had as much validity as Martin Luther. The scope of their influence might differ, but they were all a part of the same tale. — Charles De Lint

No one is mandating merit pay. — Arne Duncan

Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds. — Robert Aris Willmott

A change is as good as a rest. — Winston S. Churchill

To improve is to change; To be perfect is to change often. - WINSTON CHURCHILL — Nora Roberts

My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way. — Scott Eastwood

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. — Winston Churchill

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past. — Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston S. Churchill

To improve is to change. — Winston Churchill

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose. — Winston Churchill

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. — Winston Churchill

Fanaticism is the opposite of love,' I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai's lectures. A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. I agree with him, and I feel the same way. I also agree with Winston Churchill, who once defined a fanatic as someone who won't change his mind and can't change the subject. — Gregory David Roberts

Worry comes from a lack of purpose. It comes from not having a big "why" for your life. — Bruce Van Horn

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest. — Winston Churchill

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere. — Winston Churchill

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. — Mencius

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy. — Winston Churchill

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat. — Winston Churchill