Quotes About Change

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself. Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others.

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.

You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.