Continual Quotes
323 Continual quotes by 253 unique authors
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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
— Brother Lawrence
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Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become hurried,…
— Donald L. Staheli
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Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that…
— James Hutton
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Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making…
— Clive Woodward
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Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.
— Jane Frances de Chantal
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Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by…
— William Buckland
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Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum…
— Thomas Huxley
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It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized…
— Paula White
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It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we…
— Jacques Ellul
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The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
— Edmund Gosse
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
— Flannery O'Connor
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large…
— Susan Sontag
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Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as…
— Samuel Crompton
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Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot…
— Richard Branson
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It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
— Benjamin Franklin
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A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of…
— Warren G. Bennis
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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night,…
— Isadora Duncan
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Using a mouse, keyboard or gamepad make my arm tired, so I can't use them in a continual manner. The only device I can use…
— Masahiro Sakurai
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Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Who Wrote These Continual Quotes
253 authors contributed a total of 323 Continual Quotes, led by these top contributors: