Daniel H. Pink Quotes

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.

I think I've been happy because I've been able to do what I believe in, and on my own terms.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

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

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

The will of man is his happiness.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.