Progress And Change Quotes

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.