Alfred Bester Quotes

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

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

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

I want to reach my full potential.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.

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

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

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.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.