Chris Hadfield Quotes

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

It's important to keep reinventing yourself, and I want to challenge myself at every age.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?

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

Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

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

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.