Charles Dickens Quotes

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

Everybody is influenced by someone.

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 can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

When one life changes, many lives are changed.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

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.

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

I want to do projects that speak to people, things that inspire change, and projects that help people grow and help me grow in the process.

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.

Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.

When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

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

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

Making a company is a great way to improve the world while improving yourself.