Ron Livingston Quotes

In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.

Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!

We're all capable of being more than we presently are, and the effort that it takes and the will that it takes and sometimes the trauma and tragedy that it takes to force us into that kind of growth is the story of our lives.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

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

Rise above yourself.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

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.

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

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

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.