All Abraham Maslow Quotes
- One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and… Back Toward
- Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth).… Choice
- What one can be, one must be! Inspirational
- It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. Achievement
- Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces… Affectionate
- If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes… Core
- It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to… Action
- Be independent of the good opinion of other people. Good
- The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted… Adulation
- 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 most people confuse… Abstractions
- To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. Begins
- ...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, friends,… Backyard
- What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont. Doe
- You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. Business
- Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be,… Actualization
- No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself. Accepted
- (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even… Appreciate
- What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. Actualization
- A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or inconsistency in… Anxious
- Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. With… Abstraction
- The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the 'basic needs'… Already Discussed
- There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly,… Achievement
- The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security,… Affection
- Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in… Able
- To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. Every Problem