Quotes About Self-actualization

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

It sounds so good: the futurism of The Jetsons meets the self-actualization of Abraham Maslow.

Our motive is not to prove our worth, but to live our possibilities

The universe doesn't make a doggone thing happen. You make things happen for yourself.

To some extent this area was foreshadowed by pioneering humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, who wrote about the self-actualized or fulfilled person, and Carl Rogers, who once noted that he was pessimistic about the world, but optimistic about people.

Abraham Maslow, on the other hand, identified a minority of self-actualized individuals who did not act simply out of conformity to society but chose their own path and lived to fulfill their potential. This type of person was as representative of human nature as any mindless conformist.

Maslow might be speaking of clients I have known when he says, "self-actualized people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy, however stale these experiences may be for other people." (4, p. 214)

The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy—man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities.

The way to free ourselves of shadow possession is to awaken our heroic potential.

Sin is the failure to reach your potential," he wrote. "Guilt is the unlived life.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.

Parents should learn to stop nagging their children about how well they could do "if you only tried more, or cared more." Trying and caring, in specific areas, is built into people; or else it comes to them later, if they mature properly; or it never comes at all. But it is dead certain that no young person was ever motivated by a querulous, disappointed parent more concerned with his own pride than with the child's ultimate self-actualization.

One of his main targets is your identity.

as your dog becomes more self-actualized, he may hold up the mirror for you, and the face you see can be humbling.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

The Bruce Lee Action Museum will represent action in the sense that the word is not just used to mean action in the martial arts or films. It is really meant to be a much broader definition as far as taking action, my father's belief of self-actualization.

Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.

Empower yourself and realize the importance of contributing to the world by living your talent. Work on what you love. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

For many kids, the Internet is a means of self-actualization. It allows them to explore who they are and who they want to be, but that works only if we're able to be private and anonymous, to make mistakes without them following us.

The only path to happiness is to really be all that you can be. The be secure and unafraid of speaking your own mind. If your intentions are not just to win the game, then you can feel good that you have spoken your mind without malice or anger but just from the depths of your truth.