Mencius Quotes

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

If you rest, you rust.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Time destroys everything.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Government is like an undershirt. If you don't change it frequently, it begins to stink.

… many think that changes and reforms can take place in a short time. I believe that we always need time to lay the foundations for real, effective change.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

If we don't move with time, we'll be stuck in old ways.

I believe there is a time for everything. Time changes, and you need to accept that. Else, you stagnate.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.