Ann Bancroft 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.

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

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.

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

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

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

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

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.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

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

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

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

Rise above yourself.