Change Yourself Quotes

Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the level of your understanding. You will find that it has always been you who set the pace and depth of your experience by recognizing and honoring your true nature.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!

You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

Changing yourself changes everything.

We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

If you see that your sport is changing, you need to change yourself and think about it and work with people around you who are really smart in what they do, whether as a coach or as a managing director.

The best definition I've heard is that guilt is about what you've done, shame is about who you are. If something's out of my control, I don't feel shame about it, because what could I have done? If you're guilty, you can at least try to atone for it or make it better or not do it again. If it's who you are, you can't do much about it except change yourself, and that's pretty hard.

The idea is to be healthy, not to wear yourself down or to try and be a twig or change yourself drastically.

Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

Every man worthy of loving you won't make you change yourself.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.  You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you.

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

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.

I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody . . . to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

Change yourself - you are in control.

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire. You must want to be different [and intend to be] before you can begin to change yourself. Then you must make your future dream a present fact. You do this by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled. By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable.

And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the word marriage into soul mates, but don't change yourself. And you are the problem, not the word; any word will do. A rose is a rose is a rose...you can call it by any name. You are asking to change the concept, you are not asking to change yourself.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction.

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.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

People will never forget how you made them feel.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.