Sri Aurobindo Quotes

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.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

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.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.

All you need within you is waiting to unfold and reveal itself.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

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

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

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.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

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.

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

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.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.