Quotes about Change

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Victims don't want to be proactive about changing—they want to be proactive about making sure that the person who hurt them pays. And so we spend our energy telling our sad stories rather than taking responsibility for our behavior. Thus we open the door of our hearts and welcome in the Trojan horse of bitterness. And it stands there, a monument, a constant reminder of a debt someone has yet to pay. Somebody owes us.

If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already.

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something.

To get from where we don't want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction.

Giving is the way God chooses to change our hearts. As your heart changes, your attitude and feelings will follow suit. God loves a cheerful giver, but he'll put your money to good use whether you're cheerful or not. My advice: Give until you get cheerful. As I've said, our giving must impact our

We only get one shot at every season of life. Whether or not we learned anything becomes evident in the seasons that follow.

Simply recognizing the need for change does not define leadership. The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees…A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act on what he sees, to speak up when everyone else is silent.

But, then, that's the point. In leadership, success is succession.

If you want your church to stand the test of time, then you have to be replaced.