“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

“Just be the best and the highest expression of who you want to become. Be that. Because if you are that there is no more unhappiness. All frustration and anger comes from being less. People say not everybody can be. But everyone can be. I trust life. The only person who stands in your way is yourself.”

Protima Bedi (1948–1998) Indian model and dancer

“Depending on what you believe in life, you are capable of achieving anything without changing your body somehow.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist

“If in your own experience you haven't yet learned the truth of the deception of feelings, then you just have to go on believing and thinking, having faith in the past and hope in the future, being happy today and unhappy tomorrow, but never being in command of your own life for long.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. ”

Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive

“You must become a rational being that is capable to balance everything, big and small acts in life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“All the people around Hester hate her and despise her and think she's a total freak. The kid's beyond human law and human consideration. How do you feel about yourself when every human being you hear and see and smell every day of your being thinks you're worse than garbage? Your conception of who you are has always, at least partially, depended on how the people around you behaved towards you… You don't know. How can you know anything? How can you know anything? You begin to go crazy.”

Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School

“Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments.”

Charlton Ogburn (1911–1998) American journalist and author