Tom Rath Quotes

I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.

Small, daily elevations compound into massive results over time.

If you do something every day a little, the end is going to be big.

People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes.

Baby steps count, too, as long as you're moving forward.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

Habits change into character.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Real change happens a step at a time.

Incremental change does not change lives.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

I think you have to improve every day a little bit so you don't have one day where there's a big thing coming.

Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.