Publilius Syrus Quotes

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

I can't stay in one place for too long.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

If you don't get better, staying the same is probably not good enough.

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

We are always in transition.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.