Individual Transformation Quotes

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world.

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.

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.

Most of our lives are dictated by money and when we lose or gain some, we change so much as an individual.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

I am everything I am today, because of my past.

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.