Corliss Lamont Quotes

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

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

There is no such thing as standing still.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

Everything has to keep moving forward in 'Endeavour.' Otherwise, it will stagnate.

It ain't about going backwards. It's about moving forward.

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

All of us grow.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

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

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

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

Movement isn't progress.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Growth necessitates change and change facilitates growth.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

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.