Top 100 Change The World Change Yourself Quotes
#2. Don't try to change the world. To find yourself in a new world, change your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Greater empathy motivates you to change yourself, as your empathy encapsulates the planet, you become motivated to make a positive impact on the world.
Ilchi Lee
#4. To change the world, a country, an organization, a community, a relationship, begin with the smallest seed of change: begin with yourself. That is what this book is all about.
Gloria Burgess
#5. If you want to change the world, just change yourself. The world needs traitors.
Bauvard
#6. When you change yourself, you inspire others, and this inspiration changes the world.
Stephen Richards
#7. The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#8. Start with yourself. Only if you change can the world change. We are just taking it a little bit further. Not only do you start with yourself, but always remember others.
Amit Goswami
#9. Don't judge yourself by others' standards ... have your own. And don't get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.
Berry Gordy
#10. if you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that Change
Michael Jackson
#11. The world is the same you never change it, as sure as the stars shine above. Well, you're nobody til somebody loves you, so find yourself somebody to love.
Dean Martin
#12. If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.
Dennis Kucinich
#13. There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.
John Lennon
#14. I'm starting with the man in the mirror,
I'm asking him to change his ways;
And no message could have been any clearer,
If you wanna make the world a better place,
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change!
Michael Jackson
#15. Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
Gary Zukav
#16. You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.
Miguel Ruiz
#17. Now isn't the time to change yourself to fit into the world,"Clancey said his voice raw with whatever thoughts were storming beneath his skin. "You should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.
Alexandra Bracken
#18. The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
Marina Abramovic
#19. Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.
Saint Augustine
#20. I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.
Kevyn Aucoin
#21. When you're speaking or writing to someone, pause and ask yourself, "Is this something I want to create?" If it isn't, change your words. Focus on the positive and talk about the world as you want it to be, not as it is.
Elizabeth Daniels
#22. To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.
Alonzo King
#23. Only if you are reaady to change yourself can you be ready to change the world.
Edit Schlaffer
#24. Don't expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim.
Sharon Gannon
#25. You can't wake up miserable and expect something outside yourself to change that mood, you have to be willing to change that mood so you expect the best from your outside world.
Nikki Rowe
#26. In your heart, you have a song that will change the world, once you give yourself permission to sing.
Vironika Tugaleva
#27. If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself.
Bryant McGill
#28. Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!
Ernie J Zelinski
#29. It's only in books that you can change your life. Wipe out everything in a stroke. Do away with the weight of things. Delete the nasty parts, and then at the end of a sentence suddenly find yourself on the far side of the world.
Gregoire Delacourt
#30. You do it for yourself. You don't expect to change the world. You don't even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can't not do it and be who you are. Or who you're meant to be.
Martin Sheen
#31. Really, there's only one way of changing the world, and that's by changing yourself.
A.G. Roemmers
#32. Boro-babu, the world does not change, you destroy yourself trying to change it, but it remains as it is. The world is very big, and we are very small. Why cause people who love you to go through such misery because of it?
Neel Mukherjee
#33. Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.
Bill Courtney
#34. If you want to change the world, first change yourself, then tell others how you did it. Never demand that people change. Inspire them to change using your own change as an example instead.
Dan Pearce
#35. I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to believe in our own ability? To be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.
Reese Witherspoon
#36. Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man's attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.
Neville Goddard
#37. The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.
Nelson Mandela
#38. When you want to change the world, have you changed yourself lately?
Debasish Mridha
#39. You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time.
Geoffrey Wood
#40. The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?
Alex Blackwell
#41. its strang how all the things you know about the world- and yourself- can change in a fraction of a second
Eva Gray
#42. If you want to change the world," he said, "who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.
Ken Robinson
#43. Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.
Edmund Bourne
#44. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you're positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it.
Demi Lovato
#45. I try always to intimate with the world ... with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.
Gabriel Orozco
#46. I had to determine for myself what it means to be beautiful if I ever wanted to accept my own unique beauty. This is my challenge to you: Define beauty for yourself, and I promise, your outlook on the world around you, as well the world within you, will change forever.
Madelyn Moon
#47. Because here's the thing: seeing yourself through another's eyes shifts your center of gravity. It doesn't change the way you look at yourself. It changes the way you look at the world. Not the you. The everything-but-you.
Rick Yancey
#48. To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage.
R.S. Lowel
#49. To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
Mooji
#50. Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it.
Nikki Rowe
#51. Remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.
Patrick M. Regan
#52. What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead?
Jodi Picoult
#53. Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what will change the world.
John Denver
#55. Our whole life is wasted in trying to change others. For a change, try to change yourself! It is easier and at least under your control.
Sanchita Pandey
#56. Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.
Michael Marshall Smith
#57. Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.
Sarah Dessen
#58. Do you want to change the world?
Then change yourself first.
Do you want to change yourself?
Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.
Sri Chinmoy
#59. Believe in yourself and you can change the world.
Ray Wilkins
#60. The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.
Sharon Weil
#61. Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can't be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.
Oli Anderson
#62. Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
Henri Nouwen
#63. There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.
Audrey Niffenegger
#64. By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.
Russell Simmons
#65. If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.
Michael Jackson
#66. True revolutionary change begins by first challenging yourself -- not the world. Until you own your story and the complexities of your experience, no matter how much you may strain against it, you will still be enslaved -- if not by your oppressor, by your past.
Sil Lai Abrams
#67. You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.
Julien Smith
#68. Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.
Rin Chupeco
#69. We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
Mary E. DeMuth
#71. Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.
Rick Warren
#72. Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.
Thomas Keating
#73. You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
Nicolas Malebranche
#74. Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. If a petite, abused slave can rise up, fight for freedom, secure the freedom of others, and change her world, so can I. And so can you.
Susie Larson
#75. Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don't hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world.
Vironika Tugaleva
#76. The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
Adeline Yen Mah
#78. If you want to change the world, you must first change yourself.
Gloria Burgess
#79. Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries: go and find something of your own to defend. You've finished teething and there's the world: crack it open if you can.
Dorothy Dunnett
#80. To change the world around us, we need to change ourselves first
Santosh Joshi
#81. As women, we have to realize what we bring to the table. What do you want to do for the world? How do you want to change it? And when you know that, you don't have to compare yourself to anybody else.
Kelly Rowland
#82. When you find yourself surrounded by sane people excited about your idea and lending support, you realize, perhaps, you are not as crazy as you think you are
Paresh Shah
#83. Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.
Neville Goddard
#84. Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
Robin Morgan
#86. Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.
John Fairclough
#87. I think sometimes it's too hard to believe in yourself. You just do the things you're not sure you can do. You just act, in spite of not being certain. I don't believe I can change the world - it sounds stupid to even talk about it - but I'm going to try.
Cassandra Clare
#88. Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#89. It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.
Tim DeChristopher
#90. I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.
Craig Newmark
#91. When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't change it for the world - I love what I learn every single day.
Lisa Rinna
#92. You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.
Beatrice Wood
#93. Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world .
Ilchi Lee
#94. Change in yourself what you want to change in the world.
Gary Zukav
#95. Even if you don't believe in God and you're praying to the Universe, you're being honest with yourself. Putting your energy into the world shows that you are open to change, to learn, and to receive help.
Demi Lovato
#96. You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.
Timothy Keller
#97. You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
Philip Johnson
#98. You can't change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.
Madeleine Bunting
#99. To die was not to leave the world, not to escape somewhere else; it was the simultaneous change of every piece of yourself into nothing.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#100. It's when you see yourself as different rather than better, that you truly become a change that interferes with the world rather that allowing that world, in its different dynamics and forms of expression, to be interfering with you.
Robin Sacredfire
