Abraham Maslow Quotes

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• 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.

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  Pain, Self Esteem, Stress

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Fear

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• All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

  Abraham Maslow

  Teacher, Forever, Life Is

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• You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Spiritual, Encouragement

  "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Expectations, Unhappy

  As quoted in "Perfecting Private Practice" by Joan Neehall-Davidson, (p. 95), 2004.

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Leadership

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• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Change, Perspective, Awakening

  "Life In the Open Sea". Book by William M. Stephens (p. 21), 1972.

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• A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self, Perfection, Simplicity

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Good And Bad, Grows, Undesirable

  "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature". Book by Abraham Maslow, 1971.

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• The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

  Abraham Maslow

  Happiness, People, Important

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Acceptance

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• One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

  Abraham Maslow

  Goal, Life Is Precious, Should

  "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.

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• Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hurt, People, Helpful

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• We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

  Abraham Maslow

  Becoming, Crave

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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

  People, Healthy, Needs

  "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 31, 1954.

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• Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

  Abraham Maslow

  Block, Communication, Needs

  "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow (p. 23), 1954.

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• The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

  Abraham Maslow

  Ignorance, Miracle, Family And Friends

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• One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Failing, Possibility, Peak Experiences

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• 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

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Essence

  Hung-Min Chiang, Abraham Harold Maslow (1969). “The healthy personality: readings”

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• The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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• 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, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

  Abraham Maslow

  Success, Creativity, Self

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• Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

  Abraham Maslow

  Safety, Choices, Risk

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• We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

  Abraham Maslow

  World, Able, Lost

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• A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

  Abraham Maslow

  Stupid, Men, Trying

  Abraham H. Maslow (1973). “On Dominance, Self-Esteem, and Self-Actualization”, p.169, Maurice Bassett

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