Change Himself Quotes

#1. Man has always sought to be a part of something larger than himself, and so has tried to change himself in order to fit in. What he does not realize is that he is a part of everything merely by being himself.

James Rozoff

#2. Always try coercing others proves one doesn't want to change himself.
(Suka maksain pendapat adalah bukti seseorang tak siap berubah).

Toba Beta

#3. If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?' the king demanded. 'The general, or myself?

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#4. Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

Jimi Hendrix

#6. No student should be encouraged
by anyone
to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing.

Alexandra Robbins

#7. That a man can change himself ... and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.(Christian D. Larson)

Rhonda Byrne

#8. Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

Viktor E. Frankl

#9. [David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.

David Bowie

#10. 148
When pushed hard enough to change himself, an individual typically answers: "I can't change the world", as if the change in the world was a prerequisite to justify his own changes.

Daniel Marques

#11. Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

Jaggi Vasudev

#13. It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

Vernon Howard

#14. He who would change the world should first change himself.

Socrates

#15. No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

Carl Jung

#16. An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.

Dale Robertson

#17. The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

Karl Marx

#18. Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.

Maureen Dowd

#19. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.

H.L. Mencken

#20. He walked to the bathroom and looked into the mirror, trying to see himself through her eyes. It was time to change his style, throw off the shroud of timidity and start living his life.

Rubianne Wood

#21. Our great privilege as worship leaders is to help people see through the eyes of faith how great God has actually revealed himself to be. He doesn't change. We do.

Bob Kauflin

#22. There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

Carlos Castaneda

#23. I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

#24. I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.

G.N. Chevalier

#25. It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

Alexander Pope

#27. And he hated himself enough for it that he wanted desperately to believe that he could change. That people could change. I didn't think people could change. Not that much.

Laurelin Paige

#28. It's very rare that a character comes to mind complete in himself. He needs additional traits that I often pick from actual people. One way you can cover your tracks is to change the sex.

Louis Auchincloss

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

Abraham H. Maslow

#30. It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

Paulo Freire

#31. Charitably ... I think ... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

Neil Gaiman

#32. Mother, I spoke to the duke. He understands that this is not a formal meal. And he specifically told me that he was looking forward to a change of pace. He has no family himself, so he has never experienced anything like a Bridgerton family dinner." "God help us." Violet's face went utterly pale.

Julia Quinn

#33. He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

Samuel Johnson

#34. Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Herbert Otto Gille

#35. If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization

Philip Mauro

#36. The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount of flattery would change how I saw him.

Gwenda Bond

#37. The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

Malcolm X

#38. As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Carl Jung

#39. The main theme remains constant: man owes it to himself to reject despair; better to rely on miracles than opt for resignation. By changing himself, man can change the world.

Elie Wiesel

#40. Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

Amy Carter

#41. He gritted his teeth, frustrated with himself, but there was nothing he could do about years past. Perhaps he could change the future.

Brandon Sanderson

#42. Don't tell them he's upstairs , I commanded my brain. Tell them he moved to Pacoima to start a commune for vegetarian vampires. Tell them he's looking into getting a sex-change operation and renaming himself Lulu Pleshette.

Molly Harper

#43. I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time ... it's meat loaf again ... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

Johnny Depp

#44. When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.

Raymond Geuss

#45. Dylan prided himself in the gift of reading women's minds. They were such fickle little creatures, as apt to change their minds as their thongs.

Cat Byrd

#46. A president who justifies his actions to the public might be induced to change them. A president who justifies his actions to himself, believing that he has the truth, is impervious to self-correction.

Carol Tavris

#47. A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Steve Harvey

#48. Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future.

Kevin Rudd

#49. Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

Roger Kahn

#50. A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

#51. Time does not cause change in matter, appearances to the contrary. I am going to skip a giant step, and say that man himself and all conscious beings produce matter subconsciously.

Jane Roberts

#52. A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#53. The people need a master only as long as they have no understanding of their own. The more it acquires understanding, the more the government is bound to change its methods and to disappear. The most noble end of government is to become dispensable, so that everyone must govern himself.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#54. You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#55. Horror and doubt distract
His troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir
The Hell within him, for within him Hell
He brings and round about him, nor from Hell
One step no more than from himself can fly
By change of place.

John Milton

#56. Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#57. Mankind is nothing more than a parasitic tick gorging himself on temporary plenty while the seas are low and the climate is clement. But the present arrangement of land and sea will change, and with it our brief supremacy.

Richard Fortey

#58. I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man ... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.

Elizabeth Peters

#59. There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.

Tove Jansson

#60. He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

Thomas Adams

#61. Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.

Alice Hoffman

#62. As long as he denies his own agency, real change is unlikely because his attention will be directed toward changing his environment rather than himself.

Irvin D. Yalom

#63. WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

Ambrose Bierce

#64. The terrorist lives for terror, not for the change he tells himself he wants. He masks his desire to kill and destroy behind the curtain of a cause. It is destruction he wants, not creation.

Louis L'Amour

#65. Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

Elliott Abrams

#66. Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.

Evan Esar

#67. Only the future matters, Sora. Guilt is an illusion, a way of lingering on the past. You can't change what happened." He held her eyes , carving himself into her mind. "You are alive. That is what you should worry about. Your thoughts can torture you - but not the dead. They've moved on.

T.L. Shreffler

#68. Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.

Malcolm X

#69. A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Dylan Thomas

#70. He believes himself to be an agent of change; he is the living embodiment of the simple, implacably optimistic notion Never again.

Glen Weldon

#71. A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#72. Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Joyce Meyer

#73. Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Simone De Beauvoir

#74. My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.

Emir Kusturica

#75. The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by God Himself.

Billy Graham

#76. Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

Gordon W. Allport

#77. If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

Rose Macaulay

#78. He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective in the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face'
-Olivia/Via thinking

R.J. Palacio

#79. By that point a career change was beyond consideration; he was a bottle, thrown to the sea, into which the villagers had folded their wishes, and though he was willing to give up on himself, he wasn't willing to let down those who believed he could carry them over the water.

Anthony Marra

#80. He restrained himself from another wisecrack, infinitesimally but with great effort attempting to close down his nightclub approach to education; every positive change in his life, every minute increment in character, acquired more or less through shame.

Richard Price

#81. To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed.

Luke Rhinehart

#82. We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#83. He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

Ann Aguirre

#84. When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It's our life and support in this life - Receive Communion often, and Jesus will change you into himself.

Peter Julian Eymard

#85. there is no such thing as chance. All is either a trial, or a punishment, or a reward, or a foresight. Remember the fisherman, who thought himself the most wretched of mankind. Oromazes sent thee to change his fate. Cease then, frail mortal, to dispute against what thou oughtest to adore." "But,

Voltaire

#86. A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

Jodi Picoult

#87. The urge toward action, i.e., improvement of the conditions of life, is inborn in man. Man himself changes from moment to moment and his valuations, volitions, and acts change with him. In the realm of action there is nothing perpetual but change. There

Ludwig Von Mises

#88. His new life required no great change in the patterns of his behaviour. It was merely an adjustment. He had always known how to make himself invisible.

Christopher Fowler

#89. The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

Seth Godin

#90. With grumble, nobody changes anything, even himself.

Toba Beta

#91. no matter how many girls he dated, no matter how many he shared himself with, his feelings for 'her' didn't change

Debra Webb

#92. This doesn't change anything," I stammered, my defenses fading.
"It changes everything." He sounded so sure of himself as his soft lips silenced my weak protest.

J. Sterling

#93. The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself ... Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

Louise J. Kaplan

#94. Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.

Sinclair Lewis

#95. Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Russell Baker

#96. Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Joseph Addison

#97. Our moods may shift, but God's doesn't. Our minds may change, but God's doesn't. Our devotion may falter, but God's never does. Even if we are faithless, He is faithful, for He cannot betray himself. He is a sure God.

Max Lucado

#98. Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run
ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

Abraham Lincoln

#99. If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and pleasure, and if there's something about the system that's keeping him from getting his share, then I think he's well within his rights to fight to change that.

Ben Fountain

#100. I don't know how to say it exactly. Only ... I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?' he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself. 'I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not.

Suzanne Collins