Quotes About Change

Priorities shift every day; values once defined, stay same.

When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.

No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

If you know who you are, make the changes you must in order to learn and grow, and then give everything you've got to your dreams, you can achieve anything your heart desires.

INTEGRITY—Did I do my best? EXPECTATION—Did I please my sponsor? RELEVANCE—Did I understand and relate to the audience? VALUE—Did I add value to the people? APPLICATION—Did I give people a game plan? CHANGE—Did I make a difference?

H. Nelson Jackson said, "I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Leaders who leadershift must be like water. They have to be fluid. Water finds a way, then makes a way.

Positive thinking does not always change our circumstances, but it will always change us. When we are able to think right about tough situations, then our journeys through life become

If you want to be successful as a leader, you need to learn to become comfortable with uncertainty and make shifts continually.

God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

Life begins at the end of our comfort zone. We go there by stretching.

Leadership is a moving target, and it always will be. If you desire to become a better leader, get comfortable with change. And if you want to lead up, learn to think like a leader. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves. —RUDOLF DREIKURS

One of the paradoxes of life is that the things that initially make you successful are rarely the things that keep you successful.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas." —Victor Hugo

Rule #4: If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.) Rule #5: You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change.

if you are aware of a problem, it's your responsibility to make a concerted effort to create a positive change. Quit pointing your finger and making excuses, and try being a catalyst by demonstrating and initiating the appropriate behavior. Determine not to be a reactor but an initiator.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.

If you always do what you've always done, then you will always get what you've always gotten.

When leaders fail to empower others, it is usually due to three main reasons: 1. Desire for Job Security 2. Resistance to Change 3. Lack of Self-Worth

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.

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.

Psychologist and philosopher James Allen states, "You cannot travel within and stand still without."2 Soon, what is happening within us will affect what is happening without. A hardened attitude is a dreaded disease. It causes a closed mind and a dark future. When the attitude is positive and conducive to growth, the mind expands, and the progress begins.