Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

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.

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.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

Everyone's the hero in their own story. You've lived your life. You're the good guy of your life, the protagonist of your own movie. Everyone knows that they have more in them to offer than they sometimes show.

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.

I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.

I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

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.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.