Famous Quotes

"In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"

Carl Rogers on Change

More quotes about Change

• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

  Maya Angelou on Change

• "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Change

• "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

  Reinhold Niebuhr on Change

• "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

  Barack Obama on Change

• "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Change

More quotes by Carl Rogers

• "The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."

• "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."

• "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

• "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."

• "In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness."