Change Quotes

"The ability to adapt is the mark of a great commander."

"Those who refuse to change are often the last to understand why the world has moved on."

"Change is inevitable; resistance is futile."

"Adaptability is the key to survival."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a person can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

"The only constant in life is change."

"In war, as in life, adaptation is the mark of true strength."

"A military system, like an organism, must adapt or perish."

"In every military success lies the seed of future complacency."

"I believe in allowing the world to move forward."

"The mind that is rigid cannot bend with circumstance, and thus breaks."

"Change is the only constant; resistance to it is resistance to life itself."

"The circumstances of the world we live in are changing so rapidly that anything which, by the longest tradition of the past, should have one certain character may find itself performing an entirely different function."

"I have seen many and strange things in this war, and have often thought while in the midst of it all what strange and consequent changes have to be wrought."

"The past cannot be changed, but the future is still in your hands."

"Change is the law of life, and those who refuse to change become obsolete."

"Progress is not the elimination of struggle, but its transformation."

"The best security against revolution is in constant progress and improvement."

"The Western territories could not long endure as a house divided."

"The future belongs to those who can adapt and learn from experience."

"To change the course of nations, one must first change the hearts of men."

"Change resisted is change delayed; change embraced is change directed."

"Circumstances change with time, and we must change with them or be left behind."

"The great thing about Americans is their adaptability."

"In war, as in life, those who cling to yesterday's methods will perish in tomorrow's battle."

"In command, as in nature, those who resist change are ground into dust by its inexorable movement."

"A man may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion."

"When I contemplate the course and consequences of the French Revolution, I feel less inclined to innovation."

"I have always been the friend of progress."

"To change the future, one must first understand the present."