Lead Change Quotes

#1. When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." And I think the same applies to change within an organization.

Harry West

#2. Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Peter Drucker

#3. The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.

Shai Agassi

#4. There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any ... on how you do that in public institutions.

Robert M. Gates

#5. With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time.

Heather Watts

#6. Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Jack Welch

#7. When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

Carly Fiorina

#8. The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

William H Gass

#9. Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.

R. Joseph Hoffmann

#10. I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

Jalal Talabani

#11. Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Douglas B. Reeves

#12. Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

Phillip Moffitt

#13. They seek the edges, because it is the edges that ultimately lead us. A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

Laurie Beth Jones

#14. Professional management was born from the desire to optimize and control, not to lead waves of change.

Scott Berkun

#15. These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.

Sheri L. Dew

#16. There are a few of us who have latched on to this silly idea that we can change the world. We will develop the power to ignore what is popular and do what is right. One person can attain the power to lead hundreds of thousands of people to the promised land of their dreams.

Andy Andrews

#17. Limiting beliefs lead to limiting thoughts.
Limiting thoughts lead to limiting actions.
Change your beliefs and watch your actions change.

Charles F. Glassman

#18. Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

Dee Dee Myers

#19. To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change.

Bell Hooks

#20. Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe

Mike Dooley

#21. Cultivate an understanding that life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we're all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.

Cheryl Strayed

#22. Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

Milton H. Erickson

#23. Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.

Jordan Maxwell

#24. Lord, remind us that it is not always agitated uprisings and nonstop activity which lead to justice, but that change often comes through the quietcommitment of a small group of people. Help us raise our small body of people to set about quietly becoming the change we want to see in the world. Amen.

Shane Claiborne

#25. You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#26. It is in our best interest to ... embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than drag our feet and suffer the costs of becoming growingly dependent on a diminishing resource.' Truer words were never written.

Albert Marrin

#27. I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

Lamar S. Smith

#28. As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.

Tim Flannery

#29. Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Charles Dickens

#30. Please don't let all the freak storms and climate change lead you to believe in freak storms and climate change.

Dana Gould

#31. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Roy Wood

#33. Coincidence is just the hand of God who pushes you on the right track. That path will lead your steps towards an epiphany that will change your life. Don't believe in coincidences, believe in the righteousness of everything that happens to you.

Irina Serban

#34. Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#35. Have noticed that people do not change which feature they lead with, any more than they change in character.

Tracy Chevalier

#36. You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

David Miliband

#37. You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it's time for a fight.

Ed Stetzer

#38. If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Chip Heath

#39. In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us.

R.A. Salvatore

#40. Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.

Shinzo Abe

#41. Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability.

Bernie Sanders

#42. I am very proud that Britain has helped to lead a stronger case on climate change in the EU and the EU has led the case across the world.

Liz Kendall

#43. Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.

Peter Singer

#44. Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch.

Chip Heath

#45. The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.

Al Gore

#46. No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny.

John Steinbeck

#47. If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war
to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

Rajneesh

#48. We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead.

James Hansen

#49. I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America ... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world.

John Sculley

#50. But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added.
And all anyone can do ... is choose.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#51. if your Story doesn't change your lead character irrevocably from beginning to end, no one will deeply care about it. It may entertain them, but it will have little effect on them. It will be forgotten.

Shawn Coyne

#52. Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communications revolution lead to expectations of instantanaiy are exasperated by the slow toils of history. They assume that the thunderclap of cause will be swiftly followed by the lightening bolt of effect.

William Manchester

#53. Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.

Marianne Williamson

#54. Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead

Barack Obama

#55. As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

John C. Maxwell

#56. An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.

Romain Gary

#57. Chaos theory says that even a small change in initial conditions can lead to wildly unpredictable results. A butterfly flaps her wings now and a hurricane forms in the future.

Nicola Yoon

#58. My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

Sheryl Sandberg

#59. If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes.

Lewis Grizzard

#60. You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.

Rebecca Solnit

#61. The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!

Israelmore Ayivor

#62. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we're doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we're doing.

Pema Chodron

#63. Change is uncomfortable. And heading out into unfamiliar terrain is risky. Far too many crave comfort and security. And so they lead a limited existence within the safe confines of their velvety prisons.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#64. They understood that the innate emotions of humans were mutable. Anger didn't have to lead to violence, hate to cruelty, fear to oppression. There was a space for change between what words were said and what deeds were done.

Ronlyn Domingue

#65. It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.

Elizabeth Lesser

#66. As long as people tend to define themselves at least partially in terms of the work they do, any change to that work, its procedures and modes, is likely to have self-definitional importance to them. This can lead to surprising amounts of change resistance.

Tom DeMarco

#67. I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.

Charles Schumer

#68. You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

Dean Koontz

#69. Change is inevitable, continuous, and constant. Expectations of anything or anyone remaining the same can only lead to struggles and hardships.
Willing Change

Jane Collins

#70. Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

Seth Godin

#71. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.

Israelmore Ayivor

#72. Trees are affected by many factors. Global warming is changing rainfall, humidity, air composition, solar radiation, heating and cooling. Plants are sensitive to any of these factors. When all of the factors start to change at once, it may lead to devastation in the plant world.

Steven Magee

#73. As it was, then again it will be; though the course may change sometimes, rivers always lead to the sea.

Led Zeppelin

#74. The Atonement is real. As you steadily do the things the Lord would have you do, a change will occur in you, and Satan's ability to lead you into the things that will destroy you and bring misery to you will become lessened.

Henry B. Eyring

#75. Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

Donella Meadows

#76. If I knew how to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects, I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subject and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognize my moods in the motionless suffering of things. Miss

Italo Calvino

#77. It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.

Steve Maraboli

#78. When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.

Larry Crabb

#79. Climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

Angela Merkel

#80. When our environment changes we change, and this combination of transformative deeds create a synergistic effect. Seemingly, insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes can eventfully lead to fundamental qualitative changes in the way a group of people function as a society.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#81. We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.

Thubten Chodron

#82. The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Stockwell Day

#83. Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.

Jeannette Walls

#84. When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it.

Tom Riley

#85. To lead others is to help them change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better.

Jim Rohn

#86. My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

Aldous Huxley

#87. So, change lanes. Get your stride back. Don't stay on a road that can only lead you to further devastation

Rita Zahara

#88. I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

Greg Behrendt

#89. I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

Morgan Brittany

#90. I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#91. And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing ... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea ...

Bret Easton Ellis

#92. Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

Ray Noorda

#93. What is more likely to lead to true marital satisfaction-getting a fallen spouse to change his or her ways, or changing your own focus so that you draw affirmation from a God who never disappoints, never turns you away?

Gary Thomas

#94. Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

Gary Oldman

#95. Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.

William McNamara

#96. If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [ ... ] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to have courage. Real courage to explore, to fail, and to pick yourself back up again.

Siobhan Vivian

#97. Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

Timothy Keller

#98. So how can you tell me you're lonely, and say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

Ralph McTell

#99. We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that next generation of business leaders that will lead us into the future.

James White Fellow Of INSTAAR

#100. If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter