Robert Kennedy Quotes

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

The greatness of work is inside man.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidence in themselves and happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they do have and of all the opportunities that come their way.

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!

We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.