Josiah Royce Quotes

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

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

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

The only thing that motivates me is to become better.

I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

Leaders are not born or made - they are self made

I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that’s what really gets me going.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

I'm attracted to things that make me want to be a better person.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Self-development is the only thing that keeps a person from burning out. We all have many needs - the need for certainty, the need for variety, the need for significance, and the need for connection. But, ultimately, we must grow, and we must contribute in a meaningful way in order to feel fulfilled.