Jonathan Majors Quotes

There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

I now see that I never needed to be so mean or cruel.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

Try to be a better person everyday.

Getting past my early 20s, I feel a bit more maturity and responsibility about that stuff. You get a good feeling from doing something good. You see a kid and you make his day, you realise the power of it. Whereas before, I was like, 'That's cool, whatever.' But now, that's what I'm most appreciative of.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?

Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.

What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself.

I'm less certain now but kinder.