Gary Zukav Quotes

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

We are the change we're waiting for.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

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.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

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.

The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

A lot of us don't get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

If you will change everything will change for you. Don’t wait for things to change. Change doesn’t start out there, change starts within....All change starts with you.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

I am as close to changing my life as my current positive thought