Natalie Wood Quotes

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

You are the only person you can actually change

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

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

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

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

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.

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

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Improvement begins with I.

I'm a work in progress.

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.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

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

The true success is the person who invented himself.