Warren Bennis Quotes

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

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.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Improvement begins with I.

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.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

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.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.