Progress And Change Quotes:

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.

- Charlton Ogburn

source: "Merrill’s Marauders" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

topic: Teamwork, Progress And Change, Creating, Reorganization, Demoralization

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

- Henry Steele Commager

topic: Inspirational, Progress, Doe, Progress And Change

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

- Charles Kettering

source: Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”

topic: Change, Moving On, Clever, Managing Change, Resistance To Change

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Change, Powerful, Some People Never Change, Ready For Change

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

- Henri Bergson

source: Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

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

- Robert Kennedy

topic: Change, Nice, Inspiration, Enemy Of Progress, Nice Words

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

- Alfred Armand Montapert

topic: Horse, Moving, Positivity, Progress In Life, Progress And Change

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.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

topic: Change, Law, Progress, Social Systems, Progress And Change

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

source: Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

topic: Change, Art, Order, Managing Change, Enemy Of Progress

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

- Harold Wilson

source: Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

topic: Change, Teaching, Diversity, Managing Change, Resistance To Change

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

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wisdom, Social Development, Social Good

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.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Change, Leadership, Men, True Leader, Lack Of Leadership

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Change, Life Changing, People Changing, Some People Never Change, Ready For Change

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

- Millard Fillmore

topic: Change, Mistake, Presidential, Dishonorable, Presidential Leadership

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

- Barack Obama

source: "Barack Obama's farewell speech: this is how a leader signs off" by Ruchira Karnik, www.hindustantimes.com. January 15, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

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

- Viktor E. Frankl

source: Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

topic: Change, Positive, Inspiring, Mans Search For Meaning, Times Have Changed

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

- Francis Bacon

topic: Change, Time, Acceptance, Starting Anew, Time For A Change

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

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Change, Positive, Organization, Starting Anew, Change Growth

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Motivational, Encouragement, Work, Walking Backwards, Patience And Perseverance

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

- Havelock Ellis

topic: Change, Progress, Nuisance, Progress And Change

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.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

topic: Life, Motivational, Change, Social Progress, Man And Superman

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

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

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Wheel Of Life, Chinese Philosophy

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.

- Anatole France

source: Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

topic: Life, Change, Spirituality, Resistance To Change, Times Have Changed

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.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Sweet, Change Management, Change Is Hard

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

- Harrison Ford

topic: Inspirational, Change, Second Chance, Given A Chance, Chance And Change

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

- Washington Irving

source: 'Tales of a Traveller' (1824) 'To the Reader'

topic: Change, Life Changing, People Changing, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing

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

- Denis Waitley

topic: Change, Welcome, Rulers, Starting Anew, Life And Change

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Ambition, Men, Progress, Social Progress, Man And Superman

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.

- Washington Irving

topic: Change, Comfort, Relief, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing

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

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Change, Moving, Jumping, Feet Off The Ground, Progress And Change

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

- John Ruskin

topic: Imperfection, Essentials, Perfection And Imperfection, Progress And Change, Signs Of Life