Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Every person can reach a full life.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

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

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

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.

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.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

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

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.

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

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.