Top 100 Change Is Progress Quotes
#2. Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.
John Wooden
#3. The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.
Theodore Roosevelt
#4. Much of our time is spent just maintaining our emotional lives and physical conditions. To move ahead, we often have to clear a trail as we go. Progress and development do not occur without change in our motivations and actions.
James H. Bae
#5. Making a lifestyle change is challenging, especially when you want to transform many things at once, you better start with one, when you see the change you'll have an automatic motivation entering into your life.
Auliq Ice
#7. The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
#8. Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.
Susan Ertz
#9. I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts!
Helen Keller
#10. Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.
Jerry Bridges
#11. Evolution is necessary for ones progress ... . resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.
Jon Scott
#12. For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#13. Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change.
Charles Wheelan
#14. Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
Eli Broad
#16. Be encouraged when your prayers reveal progress that can be measured even in the tiniest increments. God is at work in your life and in the lives of those around you, and before long, little by little will add up to major change.
Stormie O'martian
#17. If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.
Max McKeown
#18. Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
Theodore Levitt
#19. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.
Billy Graham
#20. Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.
John Dewey
#21. Life is more than a heartbeat, Mage. It's the essence of our souls and the fiber of our beings. It is the breath of imagination within our souls; it's the fire in our hearts that burns for change and progress. Extinguish the fire and you have killed the man, even if he still draws breath.
Dannika Dark
#22. Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
Bob Geldof
#23. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
#24. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
Wayne W. Dyer
#25. Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#26. Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change,
Mark Miller
#27. The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from 1956.
Sara Sheridan
#28. Mostly, people who do not love "change" always go into disagreement when it is suggested. The worst part of the matter that sends their neck veins bulging in vengeance is when that change for progress was meant and would need to affect their position!
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. 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
#30. Lets try to put last year's problems behind us and make what's bright now, for last year is not now.
Auliq Ice
#31. Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.
D. Todd Christofferson
#32. Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.
Louis L'Amour
#33. Change is inevitable, progress is not.
Max McKeown
#35. THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE PROGRESS IN BUSINESS IS THROUGH CHANGE. AND CHANGE, BY DEFINITION, HAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF RISK ATTACHED TO IT. BUT IF YOU PICK YOUR SHOTS, USE YOUR HEAD, AND APPLY GOOD MANAGEMENT, THOSE ROLLS OF THE DICE CAN TURN OUT PRETTY
Phil Rosenzweig
#36. The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
#37. Truth demands progress and change, and is always for the benefit of all souls - even if you must travel through a difficult learning process or make a shift as a result of facing the truth.
Molly Friedenfeld
#38. Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.
Harsha Bhogle
#39. Your personal development is your personal responsibility. No one can study or acquire knowledge for you. There are things only you can do, to bring the change or the results you require to make progress in life.
Archibald Marwizi
#40. All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
Herbert Hoover
#41. A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change - Progress. We need Progress!
Bruce Sterling
#42. All change may not be progress, but all progress is the result of change
John Wooden
#43. Let's be happy the way life takes shape, it is all decided and destined to be that way and we can't change anything unless we first change ourselves.
Auliq Ice
#44. Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton
Bruce Barton
#45. 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
#46. Where there is will there is a way
Where there is a way there is progress
And where there is progress there is change.
Amit Abraham
#47. Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
Nancy Gibbs
#48. Progress isn't always good. There's a reason why 'breakneck speed' is described as such.
Fennel Hudson
#49. Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
Vince Lombardi
#52. No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
Samuel Reshevsky
#53. It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
Charles De Gaulle
#54. One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#55. No real social change has ever been
brought about without a revolution -
Revolution is but thought carried into action.
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment,
for science, for religious, political, and
economic liberty, emanates from the minority,
and not from the mass.
Emma Goldman
#56. It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.
Isaac Newton
#57. It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.
Hillary Clinton
#58. You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
Shimon Peres
#59. The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)
Daniel Quinn
#60. The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.
Mao Zedong
#61. As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. Change is not always progress ... A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.
Henry Ford
#63. I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past.
Sarah Gavron
#64. Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.
Donald Harington
#65. The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering
#66. If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.
Larry J. Sabato
#67. Progress is possible only when people believe in the possibilities of growth and change. Races or tribes die out not just when they are conquered and suppressed but when they accept their defeated condition, become despairing, and lose their excitement about the future. Norman Cousins Americans
Howard Bloom
#68. He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
#69. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.
John Gray
#70. No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#71. As we progress through the Steps, we will discover that true and lasting change does not happen by trying to alter our life conditions. Although it is tempting to think so, outside adjustments cannot correct inside problems.
Friends In Recovery
#72. evolution is not progress, that there is no 'goal' or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution 'succeeds' if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.
Dan Simmons
#73. Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.
George Santayana
#75. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz
#76. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
Alfred North Whitehead
#77. Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
Dale Carnegie
#78. The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.
Hugh Evans
#79. More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.
Karl Taylor Compton
#80. Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.
Russell Kirk
#83. Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy
#84. What would it profit us, after all, even from a purely practical viewpoint, if we stripped life of all poetry, all dreams, all beautiful mysteries, all lies? What is truth, can you tell me that? You see, we only advanced by way of symbols, and we change the symbols as we progress.
Knut Hamsun
#85. Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
William Feather
#87. If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.
Andy Crouch
#88. Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
Lucretius
#89. Change often brings unimagined opportunity ... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is stagnation.
Syrie James
#90. Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .
Tony Robbins
#92. Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#93. Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.
Aspen Baker
#94. Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker.
Solange Nicole
#95. It is the power of a girl with a book that is the best weapon for progress. (...) Because with educated women comes prosperity. And with our voices comes mercy. And with our strength comes change.
Deborah Rodriguez
#97. Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are
more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most.
Dr Robin Lincoln Wood
#98. Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.
Edward Everett
#99. Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top
Michael Bassey Johnson
#100. It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start.
Auliq Ice
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