John W. Gardner Quotes

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

Every person can reach a full life.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.