James Collins Quotes

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.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

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

The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

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

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

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

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

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.

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.

Human improvement is from within outward.

You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

Rise above yourself.

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.