Rob Reiner Quotes

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Improvement begins with I.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

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

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'