Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was Born in April 1, 1908 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S. and Died in June 8, 1970 (aged 62) Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Top 10 Abraham Maslow Quotes (BEST)
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
— Abraham Maslow
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
— Abraham Maslow
The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that is is to be found in one’s daily life.
— Abraham Maslow
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
— Abraham Maslow
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
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 again.
— Abraham Maslow
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
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
— Abraham Maslow
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
— Abraham Maslow
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.
— Abraham Maslow
Inspirational Abraham Maslow Quotes
Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
— Abraham Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
— Abraham Maslow
If you plan on being anything less than what you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
— Abraham Maslow
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
— Abraham Maslow
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
— Abraham Maslow
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, and they will be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
— Abraham Maslow
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act.
— Abraham Maslow
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
— Abraham Maslow
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
I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
— Abraham Maslow
The key question isn’t, what fosters creativity? But it is, why isn’t everyone creative?
— Abraham Maslow
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
— Abraham Maslow
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
— Abraham Maslow
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
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
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
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
— Abraham Maslow
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
— Abraham Maslow
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
— Abraham Maslow
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
— Abraham Maslow
Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit.
— Abraham Maslow
The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you’ve got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself.
— Abraham Maslow
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
— Abraham Maslow
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
— Abraham Maslow
The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.
— Abraham Maslow
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
— Abraham Maslow
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
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
— Abraham Maslow
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
— Abraham Maslow
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
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
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
— Abraham Maslow
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
— Abraham Maslow
Most Famous Abraham Maslow Quotes
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
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
— Abraham Maslow
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
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
— Abraham Maslow
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
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
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
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
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.
— Abraham Maslow
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
— Abraham Maslow
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
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
— Abraham Maslow
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
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
— Abraham Maslow
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
We may define therapy as a search for value.
— Abraham Maslow
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
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
— Abraham Maslow
Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
— Abraham Maslow
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
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
— Abraham Maslow
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
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
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
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
— Abraham Maslow
