Adam Clarke Quotes

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

We have to be prepared for change.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.