Joanna Trollope Quotes

People change when they tell themselves they have to change. People do not change when you tell them they have to change.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

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.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I can't change what casting directors do or what producers do. I can only change what I do.

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.

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.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

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

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

I inspire myself.

My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

I know when someone is genuine, and I'm also a big believer in, if you aren't happy with something or you're not feeling passionate, God, you're not a tree, move. Go do something about it.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

I don't think I have the power to change anybody.

The only person I can change is the one in the mirror.

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

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

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