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Quotes About Progress

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
~ Shirley MacLaine
You must change in order to survive.
~ Pearl Bailey
The basic fact of today is the tremendous.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
~ George Gilder
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
~ Gail Sheehy
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
~ Pauline R. Kezer
It is in changing that things find purpose.
~ Heraclitus
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; then let it come.
~ James Russell Lowell
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
~ Carl T. Rowan
To remain young one must change.
~ Alexander Chase
Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
~ William Cullen Bryant
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.
~ Grace Murray Hopper
Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
~ Marcus Aurelius
The mind of the most logical thinker goes so easily from one point to another that it is not hard to mistake motion for progress.
~ Margaret Collier Graham
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
~ Charles F. Kettering
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
~ Francis Bacon
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
~ Johann von Goethe
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
~ Rollo May
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
~ George Sand
I am not now That which I have been.
~ Lord Byron