Melody Beattie Quotes

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

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

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

If you want to change the world - I do - you have to start with yourself.

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.

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

Change in yourself what you want to change in the world.

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

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

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.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest.

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

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.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.