Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. The more talents we possess, the bigger the responsibility we have to develop them to their fullest capacity.

I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

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.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

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

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

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.