You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change direction overnight.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.