Michael Jackson Quotes

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

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

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

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

We have to look in the mirror first. What are we doing? How can we make a change? It always starts with looking in the mirror. Every individual can. Every individual can make a difference either by proactively doing something positive or by doing nothing. That's a decision, too.

Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don't be looking at all the other things. Start with you.

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem

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.

Improvement begins with I.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

Inner improvements create outer ones.

Once I went through therapy, it completely changed my life.

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found simply by external actions. They don't have to do anything within themselves. This is a deeply Western idea - modern, Western idea, where you try to improve the world without improving yourself. And this is what the Muslims who talk about others putting their heads in the sand and that "We are doing jihad and we are political" and so forth, they are emulating a very important mistake of modernism.