May Sarton Quotes

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

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

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

I just want to do as good as I can. What that is, I don't know.

My ambition is to be the best I can be.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.