Advance Quotes

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. Psalms 18:29

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Many bloggers fail to realise that what they know and consider 'basic' is actually 'advanced' to many of their readers.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.