Chris Wooding Quotes

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

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 need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

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

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.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

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

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

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.

There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn't turn out the way you intended it to. My whole philosophy has always been that there is no way to change anything else in the world if you don't have the capacity to change yourself.

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

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

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating exactly the same food every day. I'd remember my friends' birthdays, I'd learn Photoshop, I wouldn't let my daughter watch TV during breakfast. I'd read Shakespeare.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

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.

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.