Saul Alinsky Quotes

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower

You can either be the sickness in your world or you can be the cure.

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

Turn your scars into stars.

I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

I am so happy I have been able to channel all the things that I went through when I was younger and make them into something positive.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life. When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much. I still have plenty of fight left in me.

Through our hardest times we have endured. Into our brightest times we are expanding.