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Management Quotes: Change Management

• You change for only two reasons: you learn enough that you want to or you hurt enough that you have to. --Randall D. Worley
• Dear God, grant me the courage to change the things I can, serenity to accept the things I cannot change and wisdom to know the difference. --St. Francis of Assisi
• Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.- Peter Drucker 
• To change and to change for the better are two different things. --German proverb
• The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. --Albert Einstein
• Change yourself and your work will seem different. --Norman Vincent Peale - "Positive Thinking Every Day"
• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. --George Bernard Shaw
• When you're green you're growing, when you're ripe you rot. --Ray Kroc (McDonald's)
• Change is 'rut prevention'. --Peg Wood
• Captitalize on change. --Conway Twitty
• Act yourself into a new way of thinking. Think yourself into a new way of acting. --Unknown
• Logic will not change an emotion, but action will. --Zig Ziglar
• Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. --Arnold Bennett
• Ask the God who made you to keep remaking you. --Norman Vincent Peale
• Examine what you believe to be impossible, and then change your beliefs. --Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
• Be the change you want to see in the world. --Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Change can either challenge or threaten us...Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you. --Marsha Sinetar 
• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable. --Barbara Sher
• Change is the law. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. --John F. Kennedy
• You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. --Jim Rohn
• We change, whether we like it or not. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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
• Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. --Franklin Roosevelt
• Change is the one thing we can be sure of. --Naomi Judd
• Change your thoughts and you change your world. --Norman Vincent Peale
• Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change. --Jim Rohn
• Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent. --Nolan Ryan
• Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do? --Jim Rohn
• Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. -Norman Vincent Peale
• Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity... --Helen Schucman
• Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward. --Unknown
• Face reality as it is . . . not as it was or as you wish it to be. Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead change before you have to . . . If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete . . . Control your own destiny or someone else will. --Jack Welch
• We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. --Jim Rohn
• Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. --Denis E. Waitley
• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. --C. W. Ceram
• Growth means change and change involves risks, stepping from the known to the unknown. --George Shinn
• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. --Harold Wilson
• 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. --G. C. Lichtenberg
• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. --Gail Sheehy
• If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? --Dr. Robert Anthony
• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. --Maya Angelou
• If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. --Jim Rohn
• If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny. --W. Clement Stone
• Resistance is thought transformed into feeling... change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no resistance. --Bob Conklin
• Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. --Clint Eastwood
• Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again. --Samuel Johnson
• The Checklist of Change 1. Take your time. 2. Arrange temporary structures. 3. Don't act for the sake of action. 4. Recognize why you are uncomfortable. 5. Take care of yourself in little ways. 6. Explore the other side of change. 7. Get someone to talk to. 8. Find out what is waiting in the wings of your life. 9. Use this transition as the impetus to a new kind of learning. 10.Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape. --William Bridges - "Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life."
• The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. --James Russell Lowell
• The only people who don't change their minds are incompetent or dead. --Everett Dirksen
• There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. --Phyliss Bottome
• There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. --Everett Dirksen
• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. --Nelson Mandela
• The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way. --Anthony Robbins
• They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. --Andy Warhol
• This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances. --Ronnie Milsap
• This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. --Scott Reed
• Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, usually do. --An Ad for Apple Computers
• Today, more than ever, the successful manager must be a change seeker - always having a constructive discontent with existing practices. An organization without change seekers will become rigid and atrophied. --Lou Boland, Boland Services (circa 1965)
• To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. --Helen Keller
• We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. --Mark Twain, Mark Twain at Your Fingertips
• When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile. --Garth Brooks
• Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life -- no one can take that away. --Clark Moustakas
• You change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind. --Zig Ziglar
• You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years. --Jim Rohn

• It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light; points of time where one course of action ends and another begins. --Samuel Johnson
• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. --W. Edwards Denning
• I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. --Jim Rohn
• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. --Aldous Huxley
• Live out of your imagination, not your history. --Stephen Covey
• Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Men do change. --John Steinbeck
• None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. --Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living
• Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. --Chet Atkins
• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security found. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Part of betting on yourself is decreasing your association with losers and increasing your association with winners. --Dr. Robert Anthony
• People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. --Barbara Sher - "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was"
• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. --Goldsmith
• People wish to be settled; but it is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self image. --Denis E. Waitley
• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes. --Jim Rohn
• You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread -- stale and dry. --Loretta Lynn
• You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. --Robert H. Schuller

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