Benjamin Hoff Quotes

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

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

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

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

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

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.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

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.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

Human improvement is from within outward.