Annie Besant Quotes

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

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.

The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

Your play account is also designed to strengthen your "receiving" muscle.

Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

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

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

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

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

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

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

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.

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

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

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

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

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.