Joe Paterno Quotes

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

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 do need to maintain some of yourself and know who you are, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

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

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

I don't think I've worked with anyone where I haven't seen some progress. Now sometimes you can't take someone where they want to go, not all the way, and sometimes you stop, and they do it or don't do it on their own thereafter.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

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

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.

I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.