Joe Lonsdale Quotes

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.