Quotes about Transition
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it
— Cicero
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
— John Donne
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
— Charles Spurgeon
It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.
— Martin Luther
It is historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today's caterpillars are tomorrow's butterflies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your past must die for your future to live.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Leaders must always be looking to give away their jobs to people who can do it as well or better than they. This calls for a level of intimacy between the leader and disciple that does not last. The leader begins to disengage; the disciple now becomes a leader. The closeness remains and is no longer defined by the amount of time spent together but by the openness with one another.
— Mike Breen
My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
— Mike Huckabee
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
— Millard Fillmore
Don't accept your present state in life as final, because it is just that, a state.
— Myles Munroe