Herbie Hancock Quotes

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

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

I'm just trying to be the best version of me that I can be.

I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

Improvement begins with I.

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

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

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

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

All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are!

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'm happy with the man I'm becoming.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.