The Change Management Quotes from historically famous individuals are a great reminder of what change is all about and how to manage it. Change is hard, and Change Management is hard.  While trying to institute a change program as a part of an organizational transformation, it is essential to think deep to come with a change management strategy and a change management roadmap that is coherent, compelling, and actionable.

Here are some top change management quotes from thinkers, philosophers, business leaders, and great writers.

Top Change Management Quotes:

People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!”  – Peter Senge

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.- G. Wells

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.  – J. Paul Getty

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. – Alvin Toffler

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”  – Douglas Engelbart 

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.- Paul Getty

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude  – Maya Angelou

Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.  – Steve Jobs

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.  – Sydney J. Harris

For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.  – Tony Robbins

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades  – John P. Kotter

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.  – Napoleon Bonaparte

Change your thoughts and you change your world.  – Norman Vincent Peale

 Of course, there are hundreds of other great change management quotes and other websites that focus on compiling quotes do a good job of assembling them from far and near, historic and contemporary, and profound and practical. 

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