Os Guinness Quotes

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

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

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.