English Proverb or Saying Quotes

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.

There's a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That's the world we live in.

There are people and interests that do not want change. It is not in their interest for this system to change.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

The great mass of people are incapable of realizing that in economic life nothing is permanent except change. They regard the existing state of affairs as eternal; as it has been so shall it always be.

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

Change takes courage.

They all overvalued the importance of stability.

I don't like change that much.

Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.

Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

I'm not a betting man.