This collection holds 762 tradition quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Robert Louis Stevenson, Gustav Mahler and Stephen Crane.

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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful ... - Robert Louis Stevenson

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Tradition is laziness.

Half of tradition is a lie.

All tradition is merely the past.

Custom is almost a second nature.

Tradition has made women cowardly.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

I make our family traditions a priority.

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

Tradition is a prop for social security.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Each country is strong on some tradition.

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Most seasonings are based on family tradition.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

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