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

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

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

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

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.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then to help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.