Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Perhaps we’re too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Life is about Being & Becoming.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.