(539 quotes found)
“The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.”
W. Clement Stone
“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
Will Rogers
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.”
Alexander Fleming
“She acquires momentum as she advances.”
Virgil
“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.”
Cherrie Moraga
“There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash”
Zsa Zsa Gabor
“There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.”
Coretta Scott King
“Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.”
H. G. Wells