Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Whatever ought to be, can be.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

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.

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I'm living proof that they do come true.

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

Act up to the magnitude of your destiny.

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

How many people do you know who've had their dream come true? You're looking at one.

Dreams do come true sometimes.

If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.

I didn't realize the ceiling that I had, and I don't think a lot of players understand what they're capable of. Some of them dream of what they're capable of, but you don't really understand until you get in the moment and you give it everything you got and see in the end where you can end up.

I do think I fulfilled my potential.

When I graduated from college, I was told I could do great things and be great, but I didn't know what that meant and what it would feel like and the work that it would take.

Young people can accomplish a lot.

A lot of people can score. What else can you do?

When you have the best player, you can do a lot of things. The best player can usually back it up, too.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.