Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

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

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

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

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.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

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

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.