Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

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

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

Rise above yourself.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

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 talent is in the choices.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

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