Self-actualization Quotes

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. (Bo Bennett)

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

Ann Oakley

Concepts vs. self-actualization.

Bruce Lee

I respect what is repectable," Tan'elkoth replied. "To ask for respect where none has been earned is childish maundering.And what is repectable, in the end, save service? Even your idol Jefferson is, in the end, measured by how well he served the species. The prize of individualism--its goal--is self-actualization, which is only another name for vanity. We do not admire men for achieving self-actualization; we admire self-actualization when its end result is a boon to humanity.

Matthew Stover

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Abraham Maslow

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

Danielle Trussoni

I have changed from self-image actualization to self-actualization, from blindly following propaganda, organized truths, etc. to searching internally for the cause of my ignorance.

Bruce Lee

The prize of individualism--its goal--is self-actualization, which is only another name for vanity. We do not admire men for achieving self-actualization; we admire self-actualization when its end result is a boon to humanity.

Matthew Stover

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

In the traditional male hero's hierarchy of needs, self-actualization is nowhere to be found-because the more he values himself, the less he is willing to sacrifice himself.

Warren Farrell

The traditional male hero is about self-sacrifice, not self-actualization. (Warren Farrell)

I have come to discover through earnest personal experience and dedicated learning that ultimately the greatest help is self-help; that there is no other help but self-help- doing one's best, dedicating one's self wholeheartedly to a given task, which happens to have no end but is an ongoing process. I have done a lot during these years of my process. A swell in my process, I have changed from self-image actualization to self-actualization, from blindly following propaganda, organized truths, etc. to searching internally for the cause of my ignorance.

Bruce Lee