Quotes About Change

Thinking for a Change shares the way that I think on a daily basis. My wife, Margaret, says it has more of my DNA than any of my other books.

Social influence doesn't become leadership influence until the people following change their behavior and take action as a result of the interaction with the influencer.

Ganar ha sido sobrestimado. Pero crecer es subestimado.

You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. And you will not change unless you change something you do every day.

Don't change your circumstances to improve your life—change yourself to improve your circumstances.

Former US president Woodrow Wilson said, "If you want to make enemies, change something.

Don't see change as something hurtful that must be done—see it as something helpful that can be done.

Don't avoid paying the immediate price of change—if you do, you will pay the ultimate price of never improving.

Poet and philosopher Johann von Schiller wrote, "He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times." You can do your best only if you are continually seeking to embrace positive change.

Progress always requires change.

estamos describiendo a una persona que genera un cambio positivo en su mundo a través de sus ideas, acciones e influencia.

La posición es un buen lugar por el que comenzar en el liderazgo, pero es un lugar terrible donde quedarse.

Don't look—you might see. Don't listen—you might hear. Don't think—you might learn. Don't make a decision—you might be wrong. Don't walk—you might stumble. Don't run—you might fall. Don't live—you might die. I would like to add one more thought to this depressing list: Don't change—you might grow.

Everything begins with a thought.

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.

If what you did 5 years ago still greatly excites you, you probably aren't growing.

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.

El primer paso hacia el cambio es la conciencia. El segundo paso es la aceptación".

Motivation helps people who know what commitment they should make . . . to make it! • Motivation helps people who know what habit they should break . . . to break it! • Motivation helps people who know what path they should take . . . to take it!

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.

3. 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.