Mitch Albom Quotes

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

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

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

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

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.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

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

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.