Progress is impossible without change

"Then you do not believe in progress?" "Change is not always progress, Monseigneur."

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.

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

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

For progress there is no cure.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.

For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration. The only safety possible is relative, and it lies in an intelligent exercise of day-to-day judgment.

Change is never easy, but always possible.