C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.

There's no straight line to progress.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

The march of progress must continue.

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

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

The great thing in this word is not so much where we stand, as in which direction we are moving.

Progress includes Order, but Order does not include Progress.

We are not starting a revolution. We are starting an evolution of change.

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

To stand still is to regress.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

Anything is better than stagnation.

The goal is progress, not perfection!

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

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

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.