Max Lucado Quotes

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

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I do believe in self-help.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

I inspire myself.

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.