Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

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.

Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.

Whatever your walk in life is, you pick what you want to be, then go ahead and be the best one.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.

Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.

You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it. If this requires public speaking or networking or other activities that make you uncomfortable, do them anyway. But accept that they're difficult, get the training you need to make them easier, and reward yourself when you're done.