Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Unless we progress, we regress.

Staying stagnant is not okay.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

To stand still is to regress.

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.

Anything is better than stagnation.

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

You are either going forward or you are not.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

There is no such thing as standing still.

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

Movement isn't progress.

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

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

If you are satisfied, you will never see any more progress. One remains dissatisfied, but that doesn't mean that things are not happening.

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

In life you cannot be captured by the past. If you're not prepared to change for the future, you will stagnate.

I don't believe in stasis - either you are growing or dying.