Quotes about Self-actualization

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Act as if everything you desire is already here...treat yourself as if you already are what you'd like to become.

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

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

Be the greatest thing that has ever happened to you.

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

We enter relationships for personal pleasure, self-actualization, and fun. We want low personal cost and high self-defined returns. But God wants high personal cost and high God-defined returns.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

We choose—either to live our lives or to let others live them for us. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and to others, little by little we increase our strength until our ability to act is more powerful than any of the forces that act upon us.

The more one forgives 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.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I—I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself.