Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

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.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

Everyone's the hero in their own story. You've lived your life. You're the good guy of your life, the protagonist of your own movie. Everyone knows that they have more in them to offer than they sometimes show.

We're all capable of being more than we presently are, and the effort that it takes and the will that it takes and sometimes the trauma and tragedy that it takes to force us into that kind of growth is the story of our lives.

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.