Jimmy Cliff Quotes

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

When we are honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.

I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

... everyone must play his role.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

Each person can make their difference.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

It depends on each and every one of me.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.