Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Reform that you may preserve.

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

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Look abroad thro' Nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall we be brave and wise.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

There is always room for understanding towards those who see the old ways crumbling. And today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it does, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders too.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.