Change Quotes | LeadingThoughts

Quotes about CHANGE

"Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up."

— Andy Law
Creative Company

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

— Confucius

"One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment."

— Robert E. Quinn

"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up."

— James Belasco and Ralph Stayer
Flight of the Buffalo (1994)

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

— Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince (1532)

"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades."

— John P. Kotter
Leading Change

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place."

— Washington Irving
Tales of a Traveler (1824)

"After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years (a sunk cost if ever there was one), people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them."

— Marshall Goldsmith
Mojo

"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."

— Mark Twain

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."

— Niccolo Machiavelli

"People don't resist change. They resist being changed!"

— Peter Senge

"Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way."

— Louis L'Amour
The Lonely Men

“One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.”

— Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21st Century

"The nature and structure of belief systems is important from the perspective of an informational theorist because beliefs are thought to provide the cognitive foundation of an attitude. In order to change an attitude, then, it is presumably necessary to modify the information on which that attitude rests. It is generally necessary, therefore, to change a person's beliefs, eliminate old beliefs or introduce new beliefs."

— Richard Petty and John Cacioppo
Attitudes & Persuasion

"All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself."

— Paul Hawken
"Natural Capitalism, Yoga Journal October 1994

We would rather be ruined than changed,
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.

— W. H. Auden

"Your success in life isn't based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business."

— Mark Sanborn

"When a mature and able manager feels bored, he should seriously consider changing jobs, changing companies—or simply retiring. It is not fair to anyone for half a leader to hold a full-time leadership job."

— James L. Hayes

"Change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn't all bad — not by any means. In fact, change is necessary in life — to keep us moving ... to keep us growing ... to keep us interested . ... Imagine life without change. It would be static ... boring ... dull."

— Dr. Dennis O'Grady
in Bottom Line - Personal

"Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes — it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm."

— Peter Drucker
Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999)

"Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day."

— Frances Hesselbein
The Key to Cultural Transformation, Leader to Leader (Spring 1999)

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification."

— Publilius Syrus
First Century BC

"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."

— Robert P. Vanderpoel

"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."

— Francis Bacon
Essays, II, On Innovation

"Every generation needs a new revolution."

— Thomas Jefferson

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

— Margaret Mead

"I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward."

— David Livingstone

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Innovation—the heart of the knowledge economy—is fundamentally social."

— Malcolm Gladwell

"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way rapidly winning over and converting its opponents; it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning."

—Max Planck
The Philosophy of Physics, 1936

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

—John F. Kennedy

	Get the LEAD:OLOGY Newsletter delivered to your inbox.
	© 2019 LeadershipNow All materials contained in https://www.LeadershipNow.com are protected by copyright and trademark laws and may not be used for any purpose whatsoever other than private, non-commercial viewing purposes. Derivative works and other unauthorized copying or use of stills, video footage, text or graphics is expressly prohibited.		About Us Contact Privacy Terms & Conditions