Pat Benatar Quotes

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I believe that we're all here for a purpose and that one of my biggest ones is to help people understand that they're beautiful.

No player at the beginning of his career knows how good he can be.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

You'll know you're amazing when you get devoted to making other people amazing.

I thank God that I became addicted to pain pills, because the process of going through rehab taught me more about myself than I had ever known. I wish I would have learned what I learned about myself I learned in rehab, going through life. You know, we're all raised to be loved. We care about what other people think of us, and sometimes to our detriment we let feedback and the opinions of others shape our own self-image. I was guilty of that, too. But in my professional life, I had mastered it. I didn't care what the critics said.

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".

Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.

I just think it's strange when people say, "There is no God." Because I feel so connected to people and things that I just can't deny that there's a God who wants us to tell good stories and be the best we can be and forgive and be forgiven, even if we're not the best we can be. I really believe innately that we do the best we can.

Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.

Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!