Transformation Quotes

"Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today."

- Michael Hyatt

"Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution."

- Bill Drayton

"Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change."

- Jim Collins

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."

- Sigmund Freud

"Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business."

- Mark Sanborn

"Slowness to change usually means fear of the new."

- Philip Crosby

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

- Charles Kettering

"People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

- Peter Drucker

"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."

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

"“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”"

- Diane von Furstenberg

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea."

- C. JoyBell C.

"“But I will rise there with so full a glory That I will dazzle all the eyes of France, Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.”"

"“But there’s a better way. You show her she is beautiful. You make mirrors of your eyes, prayers of your hands against her body.”"

"“He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep.”"

"“The only cure I know is a good ceremony, that’s what she said.”"

"“The dry skin was still stuck to his body. But the effects of the witchery of the evil thing began to leave his body.”"

"“You’ve been doing something all along. All this time, and now you are at an important place in this story.”"

"“For now, just think of death as a transformation—a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.”"

"“In fact, flying silently around my lamplit cabin at 3 o’clock in the morning as I’m reading (of all things) (shudder) Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde -- Small wonder maybe that I myself turned from serene Jekyll to hysterical Hyde in the short space of six weeks, losing absolute control of the peace mechanisms of my mind for the first time in my life.”"

"“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”"

"“The moment of truth had arrived. When she set foot on the island, either she would transform into a cloud of dandelion fluff and drift away, or she wouldn’t.”"

"“The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world.”"

"“The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks-I told him not to, but he didn’t listen-and he turned into a rat.”"

"“In America the dream is to make it out of the ghetto. In Soweto, because there was no leaving the ghetto, the dream was to transform the ghetto.”"

"“But I wasn’t getting married. There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice – patched, retreaded, and approved for the road.”"

"“He had proven something to himself; it wasn’t as strong as it had once been. It was changing, unraveling like the yarn of a dark heavy blanket wrapped around a corpse.”"

"“The transformation of the grounds during the long soggy night that had preceded Cleveland’s arrival.”"

"“The children also put on mail shirts and helmets; a sword and shield were found for Edmund and a bow for Lucy—Peter and Susan were of course already carrying their gifts.”"