Macklemore Quotes

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers.

Taking back our light from those we’ve projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

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

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

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.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.