Mena Massoud Quotes

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.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

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

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

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

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

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

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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.

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

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

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

The doer alone learneth.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

The best way to be, is to do.

The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

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.