Catherine Booth Quotes

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

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.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

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

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

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

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.