Charles Murray Quotes

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

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

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.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

The test of the worth of work is its effect on the worker. If it degrade him, it is bad; if it ennoble him, it is good.

What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

Every person can reach a full life.

We're all capable of being more than we presently are, and the effort that it takes and the will that it takes and sometimes the trauma and tragedy that it takes to force us into that kind of growth is the story of our lives.

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.