Paulo Coelho Quotes

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.

The world will not change until we do

Change in yourself what you want to change in the world.

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

Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

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

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.