Change Quotes

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When we experience a fear of change quotes can help to shift our thoughts away from problems and towards possibility. Good change management quotes tap into imagination and inspire possibility.

These are quotes that I've carefully selected from the thousands available on the internet, and from my own reading. People relate to quotes - so use these change management quotes to inspire yourself and others.

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• Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
  Paul Hawken

• All appears to change when we change.
  Henri-Frédéric Amiel

• Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
  Annie Lennox

• Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
  Alvin Toffler

• The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
  Dan Millman

• Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
  Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)

• Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
  Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)

• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
  Steve Jobs (1955 - )

• In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.
  Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

• We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

• It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
  Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

• Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
  Jane Goodall

• Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
  Jane Goodall

• One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.
  Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008

• Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
  Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002

• 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 Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
  Hugh Prather

• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
  Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), 1987 CSICOP Keynote Address

• Nothing endures but change.
  Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
  

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