Debbie Ford Quotes

There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

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

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

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.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

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

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

For me, coming into my own and being comfortable with myself really changed me as a person and made me more confident and vibrant.

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

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.