11 Powerful Quotes to Inspire Your Team to Embrace Change

....But change is very hard, for us, as individuals, and perhaps even more difficult for organizations. The status quo can be so much more comfortable. I've written before about the power of inspiring quotations to move us and others to action. Here, then, are 11 more quotes to help inspire you to embrace change for yourself and your business, to adapt, to grow and to win.

1. It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. --Charles Darwin

2. Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. --Max McKeown

3. The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. --Kakuzo Okakaura

4. Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. --Mahatma Gandhi

5. You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people--and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to. --Gary Hamel

6. People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours. --Ken Hakuta

7. Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. --William Frederick Book

8. All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. --Bruce Lee

9. A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. --Chinese Proverb

10. The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. --Bill Clinton

11. Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating. --M.F. Ryan