Permanence Quotes

134 quotes by 122 authors

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. — Lord Byron
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul… — Thomas Carlyle
You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these… — Barry Lopez
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they… — Zhuangzi
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence. — George William Curtis
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with… — Orison Swett Marden
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. — Mary McLeod Bethune
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. — Nicholas Murray Butler
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. — Maria Montessori
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no… — George Herbert
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the… — Louis Pasteur
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared… — Charles Darwin
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence. — Harold Rosenberg
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight. — Sharon Salzberg
The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence. — F B Meyer

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