Thomas Friedman Quotes

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is actually really positive, specifically for the young generation because they've been bystanders in their own lives for a while.

I believe that anyone with a bit of guidance can act.

We must give individuals the opportunity to show what they are capable of.

What the world need is people who have come alive.

We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

It is up to us not to bury that potential we have.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

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

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Whatever your walk in life is, you pick what you want to be, then go ahead and be the best one.

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.