Forest Whitaker Quotes

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.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Human improvement is from within outward.

You change your life by changing your heart.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

The world can only change from within.

Improvement begins with I.

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.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

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

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

You have to prepare yourself first before you can create any kind of change for your loved ones.

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.