Carl Jung Quotes

We are the change we have been waiting for.

I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

It is not one government or another that can solve all of the problems. It's you.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

I guess one person can make a difference.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.