Lloyd Alexander Quotes

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

I believe in the person I want to become.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be.

You are what you settle for.

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

We are all equal in that we can all strive to become the best we are capable of becoming. We can always improve but we shouldn't compare ourselves to others. We get in trouble when we start trying to measure up to someone else.

Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It's possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be rich - the ego is absorbing energy, its life-breath. You are ignorant and you want to become a wise one - the ego is absorbing energy. You are a wretched nobody and you want to become powerful - the ego is absorbing energy.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

The most important thing is to have opportunities and feel confidence in yourself.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am.