Fulfillment of Potential Quotes

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the happening. How can the seed know that one day, if it dies, there will be great foliage, green leaves, great branches, and flowers and fruits? How can the seed know? The seed will not be there. The seed has to disappear before it can happen. The seed has never met the tree. The seed has to disappear and die. Only very few people have that much courage. It really needs guts to discover truth. You will die as yourself. You will certainly be born.

But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.

I had a dream, and I'm living it.

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

There are some basic human needs that are the same. Everybody wants to succeed.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.