Nelsan Ellis Quotes

I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

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

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

'Suddenly Susan' is my life.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

We can’t be what we don’t know.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.

I don't know where I'd be without 'The Chase', it changed my life.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest.

Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.