Ayanna Pressley Quotes

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I'm going to do anything in my power to keep creating the path that I want to go down and I want to be a part of and be involved with, and whether or not that means superstardom or making music for the rest of my life and not having to work at a coffee shop, I'm fine. I'm happy. I'm stoked for whatever opportunity arises.

When I go out and talk to people about how unique they are as a human being and that there's a niche for them that they need to follow through on for their lives, it's what I truly believe in.

My greatest wish for my children is that they fulfill their purpose. I know that all children - and, in particular, mine - are here for a reason.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

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

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.