Ben Feldman Quotes

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

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

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

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

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

Every person can reach a full life.

More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

I am nothing and should be everything.