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  1. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    Change your opinions, keep to your principles;
    change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
     
    [Changez vos opinions, gardez vos principes;
    changez vos feuilles, gardez intactes vos racines.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Victor Hugo’s Intellectual Autobiography [Postscriptum de ma Vie], “Thoughts,” sec. 5 (1901) [tr. O’Rourke (1907)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/35025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #change #changeofmind #character #constancy #flexibility #integrity #meme #opinion #principle #values

  2. A quotation from Cicero

    No philosopher ever yet — and there has been a great deal written upon the subject — defined a mere change of plan as vacillation.
     
    [Nemo doctus umquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 16, Letter 7, sec. 3 (16.7.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 780]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #changeofmind #changemind #consistency #constancy #coursechange #inconsistency #opinion #plan #planning #vacillation

  3. A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

    «
    Unchanging consistency of standpoint has never been considered a virtue in great statesmen.

    [Numquam enim in praestantibus in re publica gubernanda viris laudata est in una sententia perpetua permansio.]
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu

    #quote #quotes #quotation #changeofmind #circumstances #consistency #constancy #inflexibility #leadership #politician #stubbornness

  4. Take ye good heed lest this calamitous day slacken the flames of your ardour, and quench your tender hopes. Today is the day for #steadfastness and #constancy. Blessed are they that stand firm and immovable as the rock and brave the storm and stress of this tempestuous hour.

    ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

    Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 17
    #bahai #quotes

  5. A quotation from Jackson, Robert H.:

    «««««
    There is no such thing as an achieved liberty; like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.
    »»»»»

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/jackson-robert-h/180

    #quote #quotes #quotation #constancy #effort #freedom #liberty #vigilance