Carl Rogers Quotes

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can't be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.

My only sure reward is in my actions, not from them.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me.

I set my own personal goals; I'm not playing to satisfy fans.

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

I think the greatest demand actually comes from within, not from outside.

I don't want to do things to do things. I want them all to make sense to me.

I didn't need to be motivated by other people overlooking me. My motivation was internal, to be better every day.

Stephen's belief was that if you were free to do your absolute best work, you would be rewarded. My belief was that if you gave all of yourself to what you believed was right, then that would be enough.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.