One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.
No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.
We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.
Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.
As one individual changes, the system changes.
The world will be solved by millions of small things.
The only permanent and constructive changes you can make in the world are the changes that you make in yourself.
Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world
Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.
Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world.
Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.
In the gospel message, the beginning of change occurs in the heart of each individual. This heart change makes a difference in the home, then in the community, and ultimately in the nation- and in turn it shapes the future of a cultural ethos.
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?
One person at a time, one company at a time.
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.
We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world.
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.
We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
