Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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

Every person can reach a full life.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

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

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

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.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

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

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

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

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

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.

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

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.