Max Lucado Quotes

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

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

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.

Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

I used to act dumb. That act is no longer cute. Now, I would like to make a difference God has given me this new chance.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

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.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.