Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

Our only purpose in life is growth.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I'm happy with the man I'm becoming.

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.

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.