R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process; he is not merely an extant life, but is, within that life, endowed with possibilities through the freedom he possesses to make of himself what he will by the activities on which he decides.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.

I am nothing and should be everything.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

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.

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

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

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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.

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.