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Topic: LEADERSHIP IN ACTION

10 Quick Quotes on Change

November 2, 2010

Adjusting to change is an age-old problem experienced by human beings in every era and in every land. Here are some insights on the topic:

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow T. Wilson, 28th President of the United States

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale, Author/Theologian

I don’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage, Composer/Writer/Artist

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Marsha Sinetar, Writer

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
Philip Crosby, Business philosopher

I have accepted fear as a part of life -- specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back!
Erica Jong, Author/Poet

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy, Television host

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, Author

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.
Gail Sheehy, Author

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, 35th President of the United States

Comments Story Comments (%)

    A few more, just for interest:

    "When you're finished changing, you're finished." Ben Franklin

    "All great ideas begin as heresies" George Bernard Shaw

    "The definition of 'insanity' is doing the same thing and expecting different results" HR

    "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." Gen. George Patton

    "Tradition is a guide, not a jailer." W. Somerset Maugham

    "Whether you believe you can do a thing, or not, you are right." Henry Ford

    "Do not confuse Change with Progress" HR

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