Old Ways Quotes

• We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

  Henry Ford

  Sake, Way, Failing

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

  Henry Harrower

  May, Safe, Way

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• We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

  George Barna

  Religion, Way, Assumption

  George Barna (1995). “Evangelism that works: how to reach changing generations with the unchanging gospel”, Gospel Light Publications

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  Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 16, 2011

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• Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Too Much, Way, Reluctance

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.7, Vintage

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• Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

  Elbert Hubbard

  Way, New Ways, Dies

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• Always challenge the old ways.

  Howard Schultz

  Challenges, Way

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• God always does His new things in the same old way.

  Fred A. Hartley, Jr.

  Doe, Way, New Things

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• You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

  Betty Friedan

  Needs, Way

  Betty Friedan (2010). “The Feminine Mystique”, p.514, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

  John G. Stumpf

  Interesting, Risk, Way

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• We continue to think of new things in old ways.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Thinking, Way, New Things

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• As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

  Robert Breault

  Jobs, Experience, Done

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• Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

  Jack Kornfield

  Why Not, Way, Dies

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.41, Random House

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• Our life is a reflection of what we believe we deserve. As we deepen our acceptance of and open ourselves to the Infinite love of the universe, a new power flows through us, releasing us from the bondage of our old way of life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Believe, Acceptance, Reflection

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

  Euripides

  Love, Strong, Simple

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.

  John Jakes

  Children, Pain, Knowing

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• People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Sea, People

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• We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

  Edward Coke

  House, Way, House Of Commons

  1628 Speech, London, 8 May.

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• I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.

  Maxine Kumin

  Women, Home, Light

  Maxine Kumin (1987). “In deep: country essays”, Viking Pr

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• If you take a single word...and make it your own on a day-to-day basis, I hope it's choose. Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.

  Sue Thoele

  Choices, Feelings, Growth

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• . . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly.

  James A. Michener

  Life, Jobs, Men

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• Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

  Henry Lawson

  Wisdom, Travel, Home

  Henry Lawson, Walter Stone (1973). “Poems of Henry Lawson”, Sydney : Ure Smith

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• Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

  Chuck Todd

  Culture, Might, Way

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• The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.

  Russell Kirk

  Communication, Character, Men

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• A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

  Mary Carolyn Davies

  Dog, Autumn, Loss

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