"There can be no life without change,..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
More by Theodore Roosevelt
“There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.”
“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”
“I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.”
More on Change
“Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.”
“Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.”
“Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.”
More on Life
“For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”
“Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.”
“Who knows but life be that which men call death,And death what men call life?”