Chrissie Hynde Quotes

I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

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

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

One of the biggest things I think we all can do is just try to live the best lives we can, and seek the best.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

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

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

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

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

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

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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

I always want to grow and top myself.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.