Andy Stanley Quotes

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

The Republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts; it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

I'm always dreaming and doing.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.