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Self Quotes by Abraham Maslow
- Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
- As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person…
- One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
- Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people…
- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a…
- When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of…
- 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 out of them…
- Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing…
- Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense…
- I may say that (Being) love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. it gives him a self-image, it gives him self-acceptance, a…
- My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and…
- What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
- The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He…
- Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
- Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty,…
- Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs,…
- It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker