Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

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

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

I think the biggest reward is not physical. I rather obtain things spiritually. I mean, it's so cool to be acknowledged by the public, but that's not my goal. That's not why I make music. I would do it anyway, if there was no reward.

I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.

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.

Who are you? Be it. What do you love to do? Do it. Who do you love? Love them. The result: a fulfilling life.

People who succeed in life have a need for something greater than themselves.

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success.

The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.

Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.

If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!

For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

The only thing I have to say to people - try being the hero of your own world one day. Don't spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex. You should at one point become the hero of your own world.

It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!