Nelson Mandela 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.

Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn't turn out the way you intended it to. My whole philosophy has always been that there is no way to change anything else in the world if you don't have the capacity to change yourself.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

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.

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

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

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

Change happens at the level of the individual

Nothing happens without personal transformation.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

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

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.