Joseph Roux Quotes

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

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.

Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

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.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

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

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

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

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

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

Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.

Every person can reach a full life.

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

Man is what his dreams are.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.