Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

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

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

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

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

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.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.