S. Truett Cathy Quotes

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.

Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

Some things will never change.

I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

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.

Do not overthrow the custom that has made it all the way to you.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.