Wayne Dyer Quotes

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

We tend to default to complacency. Stick to the easy option. We all do it. We've tried to create a business model and society around us that is as easy and boxed as possible. We love creating boundaries and borders.

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

Competence is the enemy of change!

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.