Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

And so then, keep on growing, My son. Keep on becoming. And keep on deciding what you want to become in the next highest version of your Self. Keep on working toward that. Keep on! Keep on! This is God Work we're up to, you and I. So keep on!

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential, the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward, the greatest we can earn, granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.

I believe God put me on this Earth to be the best person I could be, and that God put everyone to be the best person they could be.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

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

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

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.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.