Horace Bushnell Quotes

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

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.

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

God has placed within each of us an immeasurable, unique gift. It is our duty to live that out to the full and to encourage one another with gusto.

We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.

We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our 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.

...You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger.

Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.

The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

Just look inside and you will find just what you can do.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.