Daniel H. Pink Quotes

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

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

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

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.

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.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

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

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.