Abraham Maslow quotes

Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist and the founder of humanistic psychology. His hierarchy of needs theory is widely recognized in the fields of psychology, education, and business. He emphasized the importance of self-actualization for personal fulfillment and mental health. Here are 58 of his quotes:

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. (Abraham Maslow)
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. View quote
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. View quote
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It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. View quote
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. View quote
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. View quote
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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. View quote
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The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point This can be done. View quote
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. View quote
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[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church. View quote
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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)
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, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit. View quote
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You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. View quote
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose. View quote
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. View quote
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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. View quote
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. View quote
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Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances. View quote
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred. View quote
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for. View quote
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Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. (Abraham Maslow)
And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small... orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science. View quote
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be... In fact it can be said that the possibilities of human nature have customarily been sold short. View quote
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A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting. View quote
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We may define therapy as a search for value. View quote
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Abraham Maslow

Occupation: American Psychologist
Born: April 1, 1908
Died: June 8, 1970
Quotes count: 58
Wikipedia: Abraham Maslow

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