Ameen Rihani Quotes

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I think my spirit is far greater than it's ever been.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

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

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.