Germaine de Staël Quotes

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

All of us grow.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

I love to watch times change!

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

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

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

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

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

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

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Change brings opportunity.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

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

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

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