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Always be. Never try to become. You can be anything you want, just don't work at becoming. Remember to be it.
- John Perkins
What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.
- John Updike
Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Measure yourself by...what you have accomplished with your ability
- John Wooden
You must define success as making the complete effort to maximize your ability, skills, and potential in whatever circumstances—good or bad—may exist.
- John Wooden
You must know who you are and be true to who you are if you are going to be who you can and should become.
- John Wooden
Can we simply address what it means to be human? What is available to us in this brief moment when the universe lifts up in the form of a human sentient body and being and we live out our seventy, eighty, or ninety years (if that) and then dissolve back into the undifferentiated ocean of potential?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
This has everything to do with holding the present moment in its fullness without imposing anything extra on it, perceiving its purity and the freshness of its potential to give rise to the next moment.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.
- Elizabeth George
Unlocking your potential requires the key of faith.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is too short to be small.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.
- Paulo Coelho