Russell Brand Quotes

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.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

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.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

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

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

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

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.