What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us! — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work… A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
