Leon Trotsky Quotes

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

We can all become better than we are.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

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

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I never want to restrict myself and say I'm at my ultimate peak, I'm always looking to take myself to a higher level.

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

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

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