Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

Changing people’s expectation is the hardest thing to do.

I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body chemistry is altered by the roles they play.

It is indeed possible to change your view of the universe from indifferent to friendly. I have helped thousands of persons make this transition in my workshops.

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.

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.

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.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.

The most difficult thing is changing people's mindset.