Force Quote by Chris Thile

Tradition is a very powerful force.

— John P. Kotter

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the…

— Julius Evola

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

— Oliver D. Crisp

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

— Henry James

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

— Stacy Aumonier

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

— James Russell Lowell

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

— Henry James

All tradition is merely the past.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

I just love tradition.

— John Dorsey