Progress And Change Quotes

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

  Henry Steele Commager

  Inspirational, Progress, Doe

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

  Charles Kettering

  Change, Moving On, Clever

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

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Nice, Inspiration

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Horse, Crazy, Moving

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• 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

  Change, Law, Progress

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

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Change, Art

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

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

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• 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

  Change, Leadership, Men

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

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

  Millard Fillmore

  Change, Mistake, Presidential

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

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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

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

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Time, Acceptance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Change, Positive, Organization

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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

  Havelock Ellis

  Change, Progress, Nuisance

  Impressions and Comments (1914) 31 July 1912

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  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

  Life, Motivational, Change

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

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• 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

  Life, Change, People Changing

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Sweet

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

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Future Leaders

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