Rigoberta Menchu Quotes

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

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.

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

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.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

If you want to change the world - I do - you have to start with yourself.

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.

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

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

No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

When we change our thoughts, we can truly change the world.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

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

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

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.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.