Abraham Maslow Quotes
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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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.
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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.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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.
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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.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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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.
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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.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
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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.
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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.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.