Bo Bennett Quotes

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

An unused life is an early death.

There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used.

Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.

Greatness exists in all of us.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.