Aristotle Quotes

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

We work to become, not to acquire.

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

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

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.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

I always want to grow and top myself.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I want to reach my full potential.

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

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

The best work we can ever do in this world is work on being the greatest version of ourselves so we can continue to give the highest version of this to others.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.