Quotes About Self-actualization

Ellos mismos son fabricantes de sí mismos

symbolically, nobody can deliver wisdom to you except you. The being who finds peace inside himself needs nobody to tell him what to do, nobody to project their own fantasies onto him.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

No one can give you that which you can find within yourself.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it.

only to the extent to which a man commits himself to the fulfilment of his life's meaning [i.e., his vocation], to this extent he also actualizes himself. In other words, self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of the self-transcendence [that is guided by a vocation].

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

Where on Maslow's hierarchy of needs does one find storytelling? Technically, he supposes, it's near the narrow top, a part of self-actualization. Yet it feels as if it's the entire foundation to Gerry, as if even the basics of water, food, and shelter rely on one's ability to make sense of the narrative of one's life.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

Be the greatest thing that has ever happened to you.

But surely, she argued with herself, life was more than this relentless getting ahead? Surely, there was more to life than self-actualization and ambition and success? What was wrong with linking one's happiness to that of another human being? Why should fifty years of peak capitalism eradicate something that the Eastern philosophers had taught for thousands of years—that life is about interconnectedness, interdependence, and yes, even sacrifice?

People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. To be more splendid. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

Look here, my dear child'—and Lady Bennerley laid her thin hand on Connie's arm. "A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. Believe me!" And she took another sip of brandy, which maybe was her form of repentance.

The Übermensch at any rate cannot be dissociated from the conception of Überwindung, of overcoming. "Man is something that should be overcome"—and the man who has overcome himself has become an overman.