Seth Godin Quotes

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

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

Defeat or the possibility of defeat is a great social motivating force for change.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.

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

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

I'm not going to stop having problems.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

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

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.