John Glenn Quotes

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

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

My life guided me to express my full potential.

Every person can reach a full life.

When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

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

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

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

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

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

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

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

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

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

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

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

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.