Victor Hugo Quotes

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

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?.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Think of something new you’ve actually learned in the past week; if you can’t think of anything, get comfortable where you’re at because you’re not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.