Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

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.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

If you want to learn and to become somebody, you must sacrifice some things.

If we can sacrifice something comfortable, that we're 'too good at,' that might even be holding us back, we'll have more room to grow into the person we want to be.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

We become whatever we are committed to.

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

I have to reinvent myself.

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

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.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.