Continual Quotes

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.