#Personal Transformation Quotes

“Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.”

“When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock”

“While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.”

“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.”

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”

“The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.”

“Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.”

“Things don't change, people change.”

“If you will change everything will change for you. Don’t wait for things to change. Change doesn’t start out there, change starts within....All change starts with you.”

“Everything changes when you change.”

“For things to change, you have to change.”

“I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.”

“Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.”