Abraham Maslow was a Brooklyn-born psychologist. He was just like some random wise old man who figured out the secret to happiness. Maslow gave us a concept of “Hierarchy of needs”, this pyramid says that we need the basics first (food and safety) before we can aim for the stars – that's self-actualization, becoming our best selves. He wasn't just about fixing problems; he said life is about reaching for greatness. Abraham’s wisdom is still shaping psychology and how we see ourselves today.
Abraham Maslow Most Famous Quotes
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
"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."
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
"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."
"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."
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
"The key question isn't 'What fosters creativity?' But it is why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything."
Abraham Maslow Quotes On The Hierarchy Needs
"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
"If you only have a little hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you have only a theory, you will only have it when the facts support it."
"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."
"I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane."
"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion for truth."
"What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive action on experience."
"The ability to be spontaneous is closely related to the capacity to be playful."
"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
"If you only have a screwdriver, everything looks like a screw."
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
"The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external forms of self-esteem (such as wealth, beauty, etc.)."
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Abraham Maslow Quotes On Self Actualization
"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
"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."
"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."
"What the American family does not know in practice, yet in principle ought to know, is that the totality of family life is what really molds the child."
"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."
"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 Quotes On Motivation
"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity—love. And the story of a love is not important—what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities."
"If you plan to live a life true to yourself, don't worry about what others think of you. The only opinions that matter are your own and what you think of others."
"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."
"What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude."
"One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious."
"You will either step forward into growth or step backward into safety."
"Be independent of the good opinion of other people."
"We may define therapy as a search for value."
"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."
"The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
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