Sayings about Continuity
Continue to do good, and heaven will come down to you. ~ Hawaiian Proverbs
Revenge does not long remain unrevenged. ~ German Proverbs
The good white man dies, the bad one remains. ~ Haitian Proverbs
The less things change, the more they remain the same. ~ Sicilian Proverbs
When at a loss how to go on, cough. ~ Greek Proverbs
As the sun’s shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth. ~ Afghan Proverbs
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof. ~ French Proverbs
When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remain white but its heart grows black. ~ German Proverb
A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent. ~ Danish Proverbs
A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle. ~ Chinese Proverbs
A loan long continued usually confers ownership. ~ Irish Proverbs
St. Swithin’s Day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin’s Day, if thou be fair, for forty days ’twill rain no more. ~ Traditional Proverb
Though the blind man cannot see it, light remains light. ~ Japanese Proverbs
If we don’t fight we remain equals, if we do fight then one of us wins. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
If you look for a faultless woman, you will remain a bachelor. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Roses fall, but the thorns remain. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Never do anything that you want to remain a secret. ~ Chinese Proverb
The dog’s tail, even if buried for twelve years, will remain as crooked as ever. ~ Indian Proverbs
Pray to God but continue to row to the shore. ~ Russian Proverbs
Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside. ~ German Proverb
The boat sails by, the shore remains. ~ Cambodian Proverbs
A cat may go to a monastery, but will always remain a cat. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs
It is easy to go on foot if you are holding your horse by the rein. ~ French Proverb
A boor remains a boor even if sleeping on silken pillows. ~ Danish Proverbs
A wound heals but the scar remains. ~ Traditional Proverb
A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant. ~ Traditional Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. ~ Chinese Proverb
Your years will still remain the same whether you laugh or cry. ~ Japanese Proverb
Prices are forgotten, quality remains. ~ French Proverb
Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile. ~Congolese Proverbs
The show must go on. ~ English Proverbs
The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains. ~ Traditional Proverb
There is nothing new under the sun — and that’s why there remains such a mess. ~ Yiddish Proverb
The feast passes and the fool remains. ~ Italian Proverbs
To him who is determined it remains only to act. ~ Italian Proverb
Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains. ~ Iranian Proverbs
A girl with a golden cradle doesn’t remain long in her father’s house. ~ Armenian Proverbs
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless. ~ Turkish Proverb
An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains. ~ Traditional Proverb
The wound heals, the scar remains. ~ Serbian Proverbs
Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves, for he will still go on loving, but he will hate you. ~ Senegalese Proverbs
The continuous drip polishes the stone. ~ Peruvian Proverbs
When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black. ~ German Proverb
God will help a seaman in a storm but the pilot must still remain at the wheel. ~ German Proverb
Character is habit long continued. ~ Greek Proverb
Quotations about Continuity
There is always the need to carry on. ~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.~ Charles M. Schwab
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.~ Cardinal De Richelieu
It’s easier traveling the road of life when I don’t have so much to carry on my back.~ Silas Weir Mitchell
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ~ Author Unknown
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength… it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. ~ Li Ka-shing
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future — and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.~ Albert Camus
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.~ Jean Baudrillard
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. ~ Cardinal Richelieu
You never begin a new life. It’s a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there’s no continuity. ~ Rudy Giuliani
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.~ Jean Baudrillard
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity. ~ Michael Porter
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work… than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry… and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and… out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.~ Elizabeth Prentiss
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Continuity with the past is a necessity, not a duty. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To divide one’s life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.~ Cliff Fadiman
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso
God buries His workmen but carries on His work. ~ Charles Wesley
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.~ William Ellery Channing
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.~ Walter Lippmann
The Continuity of Mind. ~ Book preview