Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

The world is in motion, as it seems.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Life for me is about movement.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Life is one big transition.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Change happens at the frontier.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

Progress does not occur without change.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.