Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

We all have to get better as human beings and that's something you can't really get away from.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

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

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

The world can only change from within.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I've always been a good person, but I wanna be, like, the best person.

Try to be a better person everyday.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.