Joseph Campbell Quotes

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Anything is better than stagnation.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

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

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

You shouldn't fight change. You should be absolutely open to change.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

You have to fight against being an antique.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

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

One who uses an ancient rule to govern the present does not necessarily see the changes that have taken place.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on; and that will be bad for both.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

I don't believe in stasis - either you are growing or dying.