Managing Change Quotes - Page 2

• Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

  Confucius

  Life, Change, Wise

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Charles Kettering

  Change, Moving On, Clever

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

  130 Copy quote

  Show source

• The key to change is to let go of fear.

  Rosanne Cash

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

  144 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

  489 Copy quote

  Show source

• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Leadership, Beautiful

  128 Copy quote
• 

  The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Yesterday, Logic

  407 Copy quote

• If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

  Phil Crosby

  Change, Preparation, World

  28 Copy quote

• I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  25 Copy quote

• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  60 Copy quote
• 

  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

  272 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Paul Hawken

  Change, Rivers, Environmental

  49 Copy quote

• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  180 Copy quote

• Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Funny Inspirational

  34 Copy quote

• Change is not made without inconvenience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Project Management, Projects

  'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) preface.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

  Anatole France

  Life, Change, People Changing

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Suffering, Management

  23 Copy quote

• In times of change, learners inherit the earth

  Erich Fromm

  Leadership, Times Have Changed, Earth

  21 Copy quote

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Change, Success, Philosophical

  63 Copy quote

• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  91 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

  R. D. Laing

  Change, Historical, Aging

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

  34 Copy quote