Actualization Quotes

• To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

  Meg Cabot

  Inspirational, Life, Self

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• One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Motivational, Fear

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Music, Peace

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Edward Hoffman (1996). “Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow”, Sage Publications, Inc

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• It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hope, Motivation, Fear

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• 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.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Birthday, Self, Achievement

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• Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Self, Ions

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• Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

  Rumi

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thanksgiving, Appreciation, Gratitude

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivation, Reality, Self

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• 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

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophical, Self, Differences

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• When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

  Abraham Maslow

  Pain, Self Esteem, Stress

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

  David Leonhardt

  Finding Happiness, Self Actualization, Discovering Yourself

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

  Rollo May

  Risk, Intimacy, Self Actualization

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  Ted Nugent

  Self, Reaching, Abraham

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• If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Careers, Bliss

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

  Abraham Maslow

  Music, Peace, Motivation

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• Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

  Oliver James

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Doing Your Own Thing

  "Fictional character: Jay Corgan". "Raise Your Voice", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

  Ann Oakley

  Inspirational, Self, Cleaning

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivational, Weed, Writing

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• All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

  Abraham Maslow

  Change, Baby, Growth

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• ...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. 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. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Simple, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

  Rollo May

  Risk, Intimacy, Self Actualization

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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