Charles Handy Quotes

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

We have to change.

Reform starts here.

Every new time will give its law.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

We do not need more status quo.

Things are changing tectonically in our country, and we can't just keep doing what we've been doing.

We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.

You've always got to try and reinvent yourself.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.