Andy Stanley Quotes

Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

Transformed people transform people.

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

If I can change, anybody can change.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.

My dream is to empower myself with education, and then it is a weapon.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.