Thomas Carlyle Quotes

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

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.

Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.

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.

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.