Quotes About Change

Change starts with awareness and once infected with knowledge the mind can never return to ignorance.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

God may not allow you to touch thousands but He may allow you to touch one who will touch thousands.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.

The world will not wait for us.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.