Theodore Parker Quotes

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

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.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

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

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.

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

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

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

To me, you can always get better.

My only focus was to be the best version of myself.

I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

Growing up, I never imagined my journey would pan out as it has, but the one thing I always knew was that I believed in myself.

Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

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