Kendrick Lamar 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.

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.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

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

We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.

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

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

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

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

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

I can't change what casting directors do or what producers do. I can only change what I do.

You must learn to forgive yourself as easily as you forgive others. And then take a further step and use all that energy that you used in condemning yourself for improving yourself. After that I really started to get somewhere - because there's only one person you can change and that's yourself. After you have changed yourself, you might be able to inspire others to look for change.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

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.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

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

Improvement begins with I.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.