Top 100 Quotes About Change Ourselves
#1. Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#2. It is tempting to think that in order to change our experience of our world we need to force others to change. Such thinking is an abdication of our power to change ourselves.
Michael Lee
#3. Paradoxically, the more we try to change ourselves, the more we prevent change from occurring. On the other hand, the more we allow ourselves to fully experience who we are, the greater the possibility of change.
Laurence Heller
#4. The paradox is that we can become wiser and more compassionate and live more fulfilling lives by refusing to be who we have tended to be in the past. But we must also relax, accepting things as they are in the present, as we strive to change ourselves.
Sam Harris
#5. Most prayers are not really questions ... and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer ... We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves ... that the world is changed.
Douglas Wood
#6. It's a girl thing, trying to change ourselves as if we can change our lives too.
Cherise Sinclair
#7. We are all what our pasts have made us," Catarina said. "The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been.
Cassandra Clare
#8. It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves.
Deepak Chopra
#9. We don't notice things change. We know that things change, we've been told since childhood that things change, we've witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we're still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes
or we search for change in all the wrong places.
Arkady Strugatsky
#11. It is, in truth, our responsibility to understand our needs and to adjust our perceptions,thoughts, decisions, behaviors, and environments to reflect these needs. We can't force others to change, but we can change ourselves.
Aletheia Luna
#12. We cannot make any change if we don't change ourselves .
Abdel Halim
#13. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl
#14. If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause
Jim Rohn
#15. The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
David Harvey
#16. I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.
Etty Hillesum
#17. We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#18. We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.
Brene Brown
#19. The Peace Panda Says: Change Ourselves First And Then We Can Start Helping To Change The World!
Timothy Pina
#20. The biggest change we can make and the most exhilarating is to change ourselves
Cynthia Sue Larson
#21. It is a mistake to think we will get rid of anger by changing everything in the world that makes us angry. Instead we should look to change ourselves.
Dalai Lama XIV
#22. Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.
Melody Beattie
#24. To change the world around us, we need to change ourselves first
Santosh Joshi
#25. The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
#26. This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.
Rigoberta Menchu
#27. In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be.
Frederick Lenz
#28. The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.
Ron Paul
#30. This world is what we have made of it. If it is ruthless today it is because we have made it ruthless by our attitudes. If we change ourselves we can change the world, and changing ourselves begins with changing our language and methods of communication
Arun Gandhi
#31. We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.
Winston Churchill
#32. We really can't change the world. We really can't change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!
Ammon Hennacy
#33. We can not change history, we can not turn back time, but we can change ourselves,change for the better.
Faiz Triumph
#34. As a man writes his fiction, his fiction is writing him. We can never change ourselves back into what we were, any more than I can change these printed words. So we have to be careful about what we write.
Ross Macdonald
#35. 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
#36. The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts ... and therefore the Universe changes.
Richard Gere
#37. Start Change Ourselves to Better and Then the World
Jan Jansen
#38. We want to change the world, but we aren't willing to change ourselves.
Christine Caine
#39. It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.
Whitney Johnson
#40. Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.
Tammara Webber
#41. Before we can change the world, we have to change ourselves. We can do it by focusing, concentrating, meditating, and self-realizing.
Debasish Mridha
#42. We feel encouraged to go further with our instincts, not to change ourselves for love. If I were yours and you were mine, I would want you to be exactly as you are. I would never eclipse you with my desires.
Lauren Kate
#43. We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.
Jim Rohn
#44. Let's be happy the way life takes shape, it is all decided and destined to be that way and we can't change anything unless we first change ourselves.
Auliq Ice
#45. We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Stephen Covey
#46. If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play
if we want to change the world
we must first show up on the field to score.
Paul Rusesabagina
#47. To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
Stephen R. Covey
#48. I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.
Joyce Meyer
#49. When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that's tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game.
Jochen Zeitz
#50. Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.
Guy Finley
#51. If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and change ourselves
Adam Kahane
#52. When we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Victor Frankl
Peter Voogd
#53. We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
Assata Shakur
#54. Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.
Charles Eisenstein
#55. The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.
Joe Abercrombie
#56. When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
Jack Kornfield
#57. Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.
Charlotte Rampling
#58. Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.
Daniel Botkin
#59. Social and political change is an effect - it comes only after we change ourselves.
Jeffrey Tucker
#60. Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.
Ashton Applewhite
#61. Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.
Malcolm X
#62. What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
Simon Travaglia
#63. A lot of times we set ourselves up to fail. It's interesting. A lot of times the resolutions we choose are the ones, like you said in the opening, we keep breaking over and over again. Sometimes it reflects parts of ourselves that we really need to accept instead of trying to change.
Cheryl Richardson
#64. We can change our whole life and attitude of the people around us simply by changing ourselves..
Rudolf Dreikurs
#65. Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on, that which disagrees with our memories
a new building here, a change in paint there
is forever jarring and anachronistic.
Daniel D. Victor
#66. We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
Mary E. DeMuth
#67. Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change.
Karen S. Shelton
#68. As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.
Todd Solondz
#69. A mental choice, absent a real heart change, is no choice at all. We couldn't force ourselves to be something we were not. That just couldn't happen. And it didn't.
Ira Wagler
#70. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
Auliq Ice
#71. Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.
Alex Campbell
#72. When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
Giordano Bruno
#73. With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
Yehuda Berg
#74. 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.
Flea
#76. We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves.
Colin Beavan
#77. Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.
Ammar Moussa
#78. I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.
Richard Eyre
#79. Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
Thomas Friedman
#80. Systems, whether educational or political, are not changed mysteriously; they are transformed when there is a fundamental change in ourselves.
Krishnamurti
#81. The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.
Marshall Goldsmith
#82. History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
Bill Watterson
#83. We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#84. There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
Eleanor Brown
#85. The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.
Rachael Bermingham
#86. We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build.
Elisa Marie Hopkins
#87. Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
Billy Graham
#88. Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#89. When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...
Assegid Habtewold
#90. Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good ...
Joan Bauer
#91. We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.
Pamela Ribon
#92. We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,
Banksy
#93. With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
Kate Bernheimer
#94. We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.
Starhawk
#95. One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
Gail Sheehy
#96. We are also not what others think of us. Our reputations do not define our true worth. Every person we know has an opinion of us. We drive ourselves crazy wondering what those opinion are and trying to change the ones that aren't favorable.
Toni Sorenson
#97. Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
Michael Eric Dyson
#98. Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
Richard Eyre
#99. How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.
Maurice Nicoll
#100. So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.
Surya Das
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