James Thurber Quotes

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

You are either going forward or you are not.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

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

There is no such thing as standing still.

Movement isn't progress.

Unless we progress, we regress.

Reform can only move forward. It cannot stagnate. Even more so, it can’t move backward.

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

Everything has to keep moving forward in 'Endeavour.' Otherwise, it will stagnate.

It's kind of amazing to see that progress happens over time.

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

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

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

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.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.