Angelina Grimke Quotes

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

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

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.

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

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.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

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

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?

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

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

One must be something in order to do something.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

I change every day. I'm still changing.

I've learned a lot by watching myself on television, and I hope I've changed for the better.

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

I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.