Michael Gurian Quotes

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.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they may otherwise learn to discount or overlook. We can also offer and model for them definitions of maturity, masculinity, health and success that will enable them to remain grounded in their self-knowledge (e.g. as they encounter societal pressures to conform to group and cultural norms), and to form relationships that will sustain rather than constrain them.

The key to being confident is taking care of yourself and feeling like you're the best you can be.

Had I not worked on myself, put value in myself, I would not have the loving and supportive people that I have right now in my life, including my husband and children.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

Don’t become me. Don’t let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn’t. Be a man.

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Be successful not just in what you do, but in who you are.