Quotes About Realization

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

The idea is in my head; to put it down is nothing.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

I have reached a conclusion: there is no such thing as inspiration. I thought so once, and made an ass of myself accordingly.