Montgomery Clift Quotes

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.

He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.

Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

It shouldn't matter what you're into, how you look - you can achieve whatever you aspire to.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.

You will become whoever you want to be.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.

Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.