Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

In the United States no trend ever arrives at its logical conclusion.

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

What is done cannot be now amended.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

No great thing happens suddenly.

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

It's not a sprint to get in shape.

Every choice that we makes creates consequences, consequences in the lives of others and we experience them in ourselves, those same consequences, every choice that we make. And by the way the choices that you might think are the most important are not always the most important.

Nature never gives everything at once.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.