Personal Reform Quotes

In 'The Hate U Give,' I play Big Mav', who was incarcerated for a number of years and is raising three children. He was a gang member but reformed himself, and he's trying to empower his children, help them understand the best way to keep out of trouble.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

Delegations from all over the world visit Homeboy Industries and scratch their heads as we tell them of our difficulty in placing our people in jobs after their time with us. Americans' seeming refusal to believe in a person's ability to redeem himself strikes these folks as foreign indeed.

The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

There are no unsavable souls.

I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

There's comes a point when people who have lived a life of crime get tired and want to change.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

Let us remove this defect from an Irish priest, and he will be a saint.

I consider myself just a lovable old man who just loves women. I've reversed 100 percent.

I went to jail for a year when I was 17. When I got out, my mother took me to the recruiting office, and I spent the next six years in the Navy.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.