Leo Buscaglia Quotes

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

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

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.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

You need to be very critical of yourself because MMA is a singular sport. You have to make the changes yourself or nothing will change. You have to be the one making the changes.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

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.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live, and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.

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.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.