What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma -… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life. — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head? — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts. — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
In God's nature, religious mankind perceives the way to height. In His call it hears again the innate voice of life which must have… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image