Abraham Maslow Quotes

Best Abraham Maslow Quotes

1. If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up. – Abraham Maslow
2. All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. – Abraham Maslow
3. With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is. – Abraham Maslow
4. 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, including the impulse to self-actualization and the love for the highest values. – Abraham Maslow
5. Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot. – Abraham Maslow
6. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. – Abraham Maslow
7. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. – Abraham Maslow
8. The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. – Abraham Maslow
9. If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna. – Abraham Maslow
10. With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends. – Abraham Maslow
11. Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege. – Abraham Maslow
12. You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends. – Abraham Maslow
13. What a man can be, he must be. This needs we call self-actualization. – Abraham Maslow
    

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14. One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. – Abraham Maslow
15. I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane. – Abraham Maslow
16. But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. – Abraham Maslow
17. If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly. – Abraham Maslow
18. I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with discovering. – Abraham Maslow
19. What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in. – Abraham Maslow
20. The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. – Abraham Maslow
21. Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. – Abraham Maslow
22. A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. – Abraham Maslow
23. We may define therapy as a search for value. – Abraham Maslow
24. Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematic. – Abraham Maslow
25. “The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” – Abraham Maslow.

Abraham Maslow Quotes On Education

1. Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. – Abraham Maslow
2. “All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.” – Abraham Maslow.
3. Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. – Abraham Maslow
   

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Abraham Maslow Quotes On Life And Success 

1. “We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.” – Abraham Maslow.
2. It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body. – Abraham Maslow
3. “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.” – Abraham Maslow.
4. “We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.” ― Abraham Maslow.
5. “The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.” – Abraham Maslow.
6. “False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.” – Abraham Maslow.
7. “The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.” ― Abraham Maslow.
8. “One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities.” – Abraham Maslow.
9. “To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences.” – Abraham Maslow.
10. “The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.” ― Abraham Maslow.
11. “Common sense means living in the world as it is today, but creative people are people who don’t want the world as it is today but want to make another world.” – Abraham Maslow.
12. “Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.” – Abraham Maslow.
13. “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 were members of a single-family.” – Abraham Maslow.
14. “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 learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.” ― Abraham Maslow.
15. “We may define therapy as a search for value.” – Abraham Maslow.
16. “What does ‘happy’ mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.” – Abraham Maslow.
17. “The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency… should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.” – Abraham Maslow.
18. “The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.” – Abraham Maslow.
19. “The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people’s highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.” – Abraham Maslow.
20. “Love, safety, belongingness, and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.” – Abraham Maslow.
21. “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 later.” ― Abraham Maslow.
22. “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, and family, in one’s backyard.” ― Abraham Maslow.
    

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23. “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” ― Abraham Maslow.
24. “Growth takes place when the next step forward is subjectively more delightful, more joyous, more intrinsically satisfying than the previous gratification which we have become familiar and even bored.” ― Abraham Maslow.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes On Psychology

1. “Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.” ― Abraham Maslow.
2. “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.” – Abraham Maslow.
3. “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 basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.”
   (Toward a Psychology of Being, 1968)
4. The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health. – Abraham Maslow
5. What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. – Abraham Maslow
   

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6. If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. (The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance, 1966) – Abraham Maslow
7. Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. – Abraham Maslow
8. “I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Marx made revolutions… new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of.” – Abraham Maslow Quotes.