Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.

You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

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.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

What you become is what counts.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

I didn't want to turn into Martha Stewart. I wanted to turn into a more organized, more gracious me. And that truly has happened.

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

I thought that if I was able to change myself, I would be more successful.

Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

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.

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.