Jill Scott Quotes

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

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.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.

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

I believe that anyone with a bit of guidance can act.

I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.

I've learned about myself that I'm much stronger than I ever had any idea about myself.

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

Improvement begins with I.

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

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

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.

You must know what you are capable of.