Learned Hand Quotes

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

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

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.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.

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

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

The goal in my life is to grow and become better than before.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

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

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

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

Don't go through life, grow through life.