Abraham Maslow Quotes - Page 2

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• Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational Life, Men, Alive

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• 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

  Hope, Motivation, Fear

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• No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Psychological Health, Care

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• We do what we are and we are what we do.

  Abraham Maslow

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivation, Self

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Reality, People, Giving

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivational, Weed, Writing

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• What is life for? Life is for you.

  Abraham Maslow

  Healing, Life Is, What Is Life

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• It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

  Abraham Maslow

  Achievement, Desire, Want

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• People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

  Abraham Maslow

  People, Evil

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• One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Motivation, Self

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• Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Projects, Persons

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• What one can be, one must be!

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Military, Mindset

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• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Giving Up, Selfish, Perfect

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• One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Safety, Growth, Have Faith

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• We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

  Abraham Maslow

  Work, Inspiration, Calling

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• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Men, Race

  As quoted in "Road Signs for Success" y Jim Whitt, (p. 61), 1993.

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• 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

  Views, Giving, Answers

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.193, John Wiley & Sons

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• Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

  Abraham Maslow

  Independent, People, Opinion

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

  Abraham Maslow

  Maturity, Safety, Choices

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Sick, Essentials, Way

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

  Abraham Maslow

  Real, Men, Self

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• The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.

  Abraham Maslow

  Order, Safety, Insecurity

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.260, John Wiley & Sons

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• Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Way, Language

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• The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

  Abraham Maslow

  God, Humorous, Silly

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