Quotes about Change
Learn to be flexible. Thomas Jefferson once said, "In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.
— John Maxwell
If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.
— John Maxwell
You can't change yesterday. You can't control tomorrow. But you can choose what you do today with the goal that those choices will make things better tomorrow.
— John Maxwell
To be significant, all you have to do is make a difference with others wherever you are, with whatever you have, day by day.
— John Maxwell
Management expert Tom Peters gives a perspective on this. He suggests, "Don't rock the boat. Sink it and start over." If you desire to be creative and do something really innovative, that's sometimes what it takes. You must destroy the old to create something new. You cannot allow yourself to be paralyzed by the idea of change.
— John Maxwell
I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.
— John Maxwell
THE DIFFERENCE THAT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE
— John Maxwell
Only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right.
— John Maxwell
William A. Hewitt, Chairman of Deere and Company, says, "To be a leader you must preserve all through your life the attitude of being receptive to new ideas. The quality of leadership you will give will depend upon your ability to evaluate new ideas, to separate change for the sake of change from change for the sake of me.
— John Maxwell
A leader who loves the status quo soon becomes a follower.
— John Maxwell
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
— John Maxwell
That grumpy woman didn't deserve to be treated kindly. But when she was treated not as she was, but as I wanted her to be and believed she could become, her perspective suddenly changed.
— John Maxwell