Louis Farrakhan Quotes

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

I'm a work in progress.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

I have matured a lot.