Taraji P. Henson Quotes

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

You don't have to go where you don't want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

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

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

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.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.