George S. Patton Quotes

These are the instructions you are getting today. It is only fair to tell you, however, that they may be changed tomorrow. And ten days later they may be changed back to the instructions you are getting now.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

You can only have a short sight because things change a lot. You can't plan what the years will bring.

It's amazing how quickly things can change.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

There is nothing permanent except change.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

History is a fickle lady.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

There is nothing under the sun that does not change.

Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.