“There are three constants in life… Change, Choice and Principles.”
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention (August 23, 1956). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20210125121539/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes from the original https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes on Janunary 25, 2021. <br class="br">1950s
“There are three constants in life… Change, Choice and Principles.”
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
“Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. ”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Randal Marlin (1938) Canadian academic
Source: Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002), Chapter One, Why Study Propaganda?, p. 15
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (29 October 1867); quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 291.
“Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic
Book 3, “Sad Giant’s Shield,” Chapter 3 “A Watery Summoning” (p. 545)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 135.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
"Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907) as translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke
Source: Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, 25th Anniversary of Polish Freedom Day Speech (June 2014)
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)