Internal Change Quotes

You can’t just say that you’re committed to creating the best year of your life and expect it to stick. You have to make a conscious effort to allow this commitment to become part of your internal belief system.

Play within the system. Be a decision maker.

It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

More people know who I am, but I don't feel any different within myself - I think that's the main thing.

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

Liberation does not come from outside.

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

The emotion is the execution of a very complex program of actions. Some actions that are actually movements, like movement that you can do, change your face for example, in fear, or movements that are internal, that happen in your heart or in your gut, and movements that are actually not muscular movements, but rather, releases of molecules.

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.

Reform has to emanate from the inside. It has to be compatible with your customs. … One cannot impose one’s will on the majority of the people as much as one wants to do so.

Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses against existing competition, teams need to be developed to foster internal change and disruption. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.