Michael Lewis Quotes

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.

Someone who's passed through the circumstances that I have has to make the decision either to be a good person or a bad person, and I decide to become better at every opportunity.

Try to be a better person everyday.

Art makes you a better human being, and that reflects in society.

If anyone says you are bad, this mean he wants you to be good, and I am here to be good, and I want to be good. If they say I have done bad, then they should also give me a chance to change myself for good.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

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.

Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you’re in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are.

The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind andyour manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.