A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Change is not made without inconvenience.

Samuel Johnson

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Change Inconvenience Made Without

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Richard Hooker

Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

Vincent de Paul

I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.

Al Sharpton

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

Marcus Aurelius

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

Michel de Montaigne

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

Robert Scoble

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

Bill Bryson

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

angel Kyodo Williams

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.