Dorothy Day Quotes

Change happens at the level of the individual

If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.

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

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

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.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

As sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, we are capable of so much more. For that, good intentions are not enough. We must do. Even more important, we must become what Heavenly Father wants us to be.

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.