Sargent Shriver Quotes

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

The best way to be, is to do.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

We can all become better than we are.

I feel, that I'm only going to get better.

I'm getting better every day.

We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I do believe in self-help.

Improvement begins with I.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.