Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
Interpretation
Progress requires change that is guided by principled values, while change without a solid foundation leads to disorder.
In this quote, Dwight D. Eisenhower emphasizes the importance of having a strong set of principles as a foundation for any change we pursue. Without these guiding principles, our changes may lead to chaos and instability rather than productive advancement, highlighting the necessity of thoughtful, principled decision-making in the face of inevitable change.
In practice
In a leadership seminar discussing the need for principled decision-making in organizations.
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.
My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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