34 Thought Provoking Change Management Quotes

Change is good. It’s also often hard. The status quo can be so much more comfortable. But to succeed in business, you must run toward change.  Companies most likely to be successful in making change work to their advantage are the ones that no longer view change as a discrete event to be managed, but as a constant opportunity to evolve the business

Here are 34 thought provoking change management quotes:

1. It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change —  Charles Darwin

2. One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment — Robert E. Quinn

3. Change before you have to — Jack Welch

4. You must embrace change before change erases you.
   — Rob Liano

5. Change before you have to — Jack Welch

6. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.
   — Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organisational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behaviour, and Create an Agile Culture

7. People don’t resist change. They resist being changed! — Peter Senge

8. If you want to make enemies, try to change something — Woodrow Wilson

9. The key to change is to let go of fear — Rosanne Cash

10. The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress — Charles Kettering

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times — Niccolo Machiavelli

15. 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

16. Change your thoughts and you change your world — Norman Vincent Peale

17. If you don’t like change, you will like irrelevance even less —  General Eric Shinseki (U.S. Army Chief of Staff, 1999-2003)

18. 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

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

20. — Niccolo Machiavelli

21. All is connected, no one thing can change by itself
    — Paul Hawken

22. Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you — William Frederick Book

23. We would rather be ruined than change

24. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment  and let our illusions die  — W. H. Auden

25. Every generation needs a new revolution  — Thomas Jefferson

26. 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

27. I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward  — David Livingstone

28. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself  — George Bernard Shaw

29. Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win— Max McKeown

30. You can’t build an adaptable organization without adaptable people–and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to — Gary Hamel

31. People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours — Ken Hakuta

32. A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it — Chinese Proverb

33. The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change — Bill Clinton

34. Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating — M.F. Ryan

Change or die? we  choose life! How about you?