#Self Actualization Quotes

“Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind.”

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

“Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.”

“Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”

“The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their intention on what they don't want. They know that what you think about is what expands.”

“Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.”

“...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.”

“What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.”

“We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.”

“The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”

“He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.”

“Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”

“Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.”

“The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?”

“The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.”

“Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.”

“No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.”

“Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.”

“Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.”

“Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.”

“Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.”

“I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.”

“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”

“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”