Quotes About Self-actualization

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

Rise up and be you. Your rise is your growth.

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Iadul este incapacitatea de a fi altul decat fiinta pe care o descoperi actionand zilnic in numele tau.

It's terribly important for everyone, at any age, to live to his full potential. Otherwise a kind of dry rot sets in, a rust, a disintegration of personality.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself.

You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

The truth is that no one can keep you captive. No one can keep you unhappy. No one can keep you abused. Our lives rise to the level we accept.

You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.

A boy is a man when he proves himself to be one, but a girl is a woman when she desires to be one.

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

The truest success is but the development of self.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

For me, my career has never been about what I've done. But it's been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

A] man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.