Self Actualized Quotes

#1. Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one's own life is about as productive as talking to one's image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.

Anthony Marais

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

Wayne Dyer

#3. To some extent this area was foreshadowed by pioneering humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, who wrote about the self-actualized or fulfilled person, and Carl Rogers, who once noted that he was pessimistic about the world, but optimistic about people.

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#4. I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them - the bad kids and the good kids and all kids - as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized.

John Green

#5. Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Wayne Dyer

#6. Self-actualized people ... live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Abraham H. Maslow

#7. Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

Marianne Williamson

#8. I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

Ted Nugent

#9. Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.

Stephen Few

#10. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Albert Einstein

#11. Jewish nationalism means no more than recognition of the peoplehood of Israel, and of the propriety of that people's being a religio-cultural group in America, a nationality in Eastern Europe, and in Palestine an actualized nation.

Milton Steinberg

#12. We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged. ~Colonel Henry Knox

David McCullough

#13. I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

George Saunders

#14. The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#15. I drive two black cars, I named em Malcolm X and Martin Luther.

Drake

#16. As a seer, I naturally can see the evolutionary potential of a being. But the potential will not necessarily be actualized. A particular being will not necessarily realize their full height.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Leadership is unveiled by Vision, Driven by Passion, Activated by Planning, Engineered by Sacrifice and Actualized by Tireless Pursuit.

Ld

#18. If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Steven Wright

#19. She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write ...

Thomas Hardy

#20. To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

James H. Cone

#21. For as soon as we have used an opportunity and have actualized a potential meaning, we have done so once and for all. We have rescued it into the past/ ... /, wherein nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured.

Viktor E. Frankl

#22. I mean, hope doesn't get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we'd be out of luck as a country.

Michelle Obama

#23. The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us - it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

Lama Surya Das

#24. Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#25. Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

Hannah Arendt

#26. I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

Grimes

#27. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions. Our

Viktor E. Frankl

#28. There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

Beck

#29. I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

Aleksandar Hemon