Denzel Washington Quotes

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

When you're constantly stuck in your comfort zone, it means you're not growing.

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

I never want to get content. I never want to think that I'm at a certain spot and I'm gonna stay there, because this organization's hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.

Value experiences by how much you're learning, and if you're aren't learning, move on.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

. . . escape is easier than change.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.