Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

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.

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

The most important thing is to have opportunities and feel confidence in yourself.

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

Everything is generated through your own will power.

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

A man is always better than he thinks.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Liberation does not come from outside.

You have to be confident to be successful... I am somewhat confident.