Quotes About Self-actualization

One of the things I stress to those I meet, especially young people, is that we are the heroes of our own lives, and we can be the masters of our own stories.

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

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

Vitality directly reflects eudaimonia—the inherent fulfillment produced by virtuecongruent activity—and reminds us that fulfillment is not an abstract judgment but an experienced psychological state. Vitality is how self-actualization feels. Vitality is a way to describe the engagement and absorption of flow.

People with dominant Egotist Imposters who are self-actualized are often strong and self-possessed leaders, direct in their interaction with others, and even protective of others. Many of them are true trailblazers. When they empower people instead of intimidating them, they are remarkable change agents.

We manifest what we believe, even if those beliefs trip us up and create roadblocks to personal growth. As the old adage by Henry Ford goes: Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. The goal is not to be "right" but to be whole and self-actualized.

You're allowed to want to use your education. You're allowed to want to be more than a mother.

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

You can only be fulfilled and accomplished in life when you effectively maximize yourself

For a woman to actually repossess herself and to centre there is a monumental task, taking years of difficult, painstaking work…. Once a woman has done the work of re-membering herself, she is much more able to change the world effectively.

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.

each one needs something outside itself to actualize its potentiality for change.

To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Being single is getting over the illusion that there is somebody out there to complete you and taking charge of your own life.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

When you don't own an aspect of yourself it runs your life.

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.

if people do things for lunk-headed, backward-looking reasons, why wouldn't we also do things for significance-seeking, self-actualizing reasons? If we are predictably irrational - and we clearly are- why couldn't we also be predictably transcendent?

Remember your Abraham Maslow and your Viktor Frankl. Bet your business on it.

This visceral, meaningful work makes the spirit soar with self-worth and accomplishment. This is the ultimate self-actualization. You won't find that at the end of a video game, no matter how many times you play.