John Coltrane Quotes

I must find a truth that is true for me.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

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

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

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.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

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

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

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

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.

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.

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

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.

We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

Every person can reach a full life.

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.