William Howard Taft Quotes

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Don't be content with things as they are.

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

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

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.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

If you don't have problems, you don't have opportunities.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement

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

We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

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

If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.

Progress grows out of motion.

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

Progress is the mother of problems.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

Anything is better than stagnation.

All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution.' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.