Joyce Meyer Quotes

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if they were desperate to be somebody different from who they were. So, best keep your distance.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

You're trying to figure out who you are when you're younger. However, once you've found yourself, you run your race, and you run in your own lane.

The ego and the personality have to be dropped, then you will find individuality arising...a feeling of uniqueness. Yes, you are unique. Everybody else is also unique. In this world only unique people exist, so comparison is just stupid, because you alone are like yourself. There is nobody like you, so how to compare?

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.