Sudha Murty Quotes

You can become whoever you want to be. You can do what you want to do.

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I always want to grow and top myself.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

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.

I'm just a young person trying to fulfil his potential and be the best he can be at what he wants to do... I guess that's why people connect with the music.

My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.

I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

No matter where you come from, no matter what you decide to do in life, you can do anything you want to do.

No matter how successful you become... there's always that sense that you could be better.

There's an inner desire, something inside of me, that's always wanted to be great and leave a mark.

I'm not just a pretty face. I want to pursue something.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

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.

The thing I would hate myself for the most or regret the most is if I did not push myself to maximize my potential and my abilities.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can!

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.