Maajid Nawaz Quotes

You change your life by changing your heart.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

It is not easy for me to accept criticism and reassess my way of doing things.

I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.