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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,…
- What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
- During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster