Corsican Proverb Quotes

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Those above are going down, those below are going up.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

The bar raises as you go.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

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

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.

Every winning streak will have to end sometime.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

The fulfillment of America’s ideals will have to be sought in the patient accumulations of partial successes.

In the annals of human history the growth of nations, the rise and fall of empires, appear as dependent on the will and prowess of man. The shaping of events seems, to a great degree, to be determined by his power, ambition, or caprice. But in the word of God the curtain is drawn aside, and we behold, behind, above, and through all the play and counter play of human interests and power and passions, the agencies of the all-merciful One, silently, patiently working out the counsels of His own will.

Every thing is moving and changing. Persons in poverty, are rising to opulence, and persons of wealth, are sinking to poverty.

The use of power to bring about radical social and political change in the 1860s carries important implications for the use of federal power to bring about change in matters of race, citizenship, and social welfare today. So long as this remains true—and there us no sign that these issues will go away any time soon.

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

If you don't get better, staying the same is probably not good enough.

Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.