Margaret Mead Quotes

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

If you don’t move, you get stale.

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.

If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Anything is better than stagnation.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?