Perpetual Quotes

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. (Colin Powell)
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. View quote
Petrarch
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. View quote
Joseph Addison
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. View quote
Joseph Addison
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. View quote
Benito Mussolini
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. View quote
George Santayana
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity-unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. (Henry Clay)
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. View quote
David Hume
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The world is but a perpetual see-saw. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is too condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. View quote
Émile Durkheim
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. View quote
Alexander Pope
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view. View quote
Joseph Addison
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them. (Michael Chabon)
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. View quote
John Calvin
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end? View quote
T. H. White