Graham Potter Quotes

The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter - where I put myself in situations that don't have a huge potential for disaster.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.

Freedom is the freedom you choose, when you're not getting in your own way. The best way to start every day is to wake up and wash your face and look yourself in the mirror, right in the eyes of your reflection, and say, "don't get in my way." Because it's only when we get in our own way that we have to step back or step aside or step over here and not walk at all.