John Bradshaw 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 think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

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

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

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

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

Improvement begins with I.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

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

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

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.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.