Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Not everyone is granted the opportunity that each of us deserves: to fulfill our God-given potential.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

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

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.

Life can be either of two things: What it makes of you or what you make of it.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

I've had a fantastic life so far; I'm lucky. I'd like the great role that changes everything, but at the moment, what's important is being happy in myself.

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.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

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

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.