Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

He who does not advance, retreats.

You either get better or you get worse. Those are the only two options.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

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

One step forward, two steps back ... It happens in the lives of individuals, and it happens in the history of nations and in the development of parties.

Unless we progress, we regress.

Reform can only move forward. It cannot stagnate. Even more so, it can’t move backward.

You're never static as a performer. You either get better or you get worse. As I see it, you have an equal chance at either.

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.