George Foreman Quotes

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

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.

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.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

One creates oneself.

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

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.

My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.