Change Quotes

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• You must be the change you want to see in the world.
  Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

• God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
  Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971), in a sermon in 1943

• We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
  Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

• They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
  Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects

• We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
  Stephen Covey

• Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
  Bob Dylan (1941 - ), "To Ramona"

• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
  Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)

• Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
  Steve Jobs (1955 - ), The line he used to lure John Sculley as Apple's CEO

• 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 (1917 - 1963)

• Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
  Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

• The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
  John Schaar, futurist

• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
  Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
  

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

• Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
  Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

• What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
  Earl of Roscommon

• In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
  James Burgh

• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
  Alvin Toffler

• So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
  Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)

• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
  Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)

• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
  Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)

• The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
  Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)