Quotations on Change

We are talking about change.  Why is it so difficult?  Why are we so resistant?  If what we're doing isn't working, why are we still doing it the same way?


"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix." Christina Baldwin


“In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” -Warren Buffett


“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” -Deepak Chopra


“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” -Walter Anderson


“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” -Tony Robbins


“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” –Michael Jordan


“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw


“20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain


He who rejects change is the architect of decay.  The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.  ~Harold Wilson


If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit


It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory.  ~W. Edwards Deming 



The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.  ~Henry Miller


If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.  ~Author Unknown


We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
~W.H. Auden



The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.  ~Japanese Proverb


Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me.  The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.  ~George Bernard Shaw