Quotes about Change

When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.

No one has ever stayed the same while at the same time rising to a higher level. Being willing to change is one of the prices we pay to grow.

Climbing to the higher levels of leadership isn't easy. It takes effort. It also requires sacrifices. You won't be able to win one level using the skills you used to win the last one. You'll have to give up some privileges and resources to move up. You'll have to give up doing some of the things you love that don't give a great enough return on your time. And some people you'd love to take with you to the top will refuse to go.

Make developing leaders a priority. It will require you to shift from doing to developing. It will require you to believe in people. And it will require you to share the load. Leadership is the art of helping people change from who they're thought to be to who they ought to be.

The problem is that most of us have uphill dreams but downhill habits.

Though you cannot go back and make a brand-new start, my friend, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new end.

Application: Applying what you've learned is sometimes difficult because it requires change. Most people change only when one of three things happens: they hurt enough that they have to, they learn enough that they want to, or they receive enough that they are able to. Your goal is to keep learning so that you want to change for the better every day.

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

Everything in your future is NOT determined by your past.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.