Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

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

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

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

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.

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

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

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

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.