Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

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

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

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.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

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

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.