Lillian Gordy Carter Quotes

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

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

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

I just live my life.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

I just want to do as good as I can. What that is, I don't know.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

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

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

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

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.