Abraham Maslow Quotes

What a man can be, he must be.

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

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.

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

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

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

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

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 plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

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

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

Abraham Maslow Quotes part 2

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.

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

I think that I shall never see a person quite so creative as me.

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

What a man can be, he must be.

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.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

The path of the individual toward his own fulfillment is to be found in desacralizing and unmasking the world.

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is what others think you are.

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

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

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.

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.

What a man can be, he must be.

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Human beings seem to be separatist by nature, but social institutions alter them, and create deep links between people.

Self-actualizing people express their needs and values clearly, and are not afraid to act in accordance with them, at least some of the time.

The most stable, and therefore the healthiest, self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than unmerited compliments.

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

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

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

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.

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Human beings seem to be separatist by nature, but social institutions alter them, and create deep links between people.

Self-actualizing people express their needs and values clearly, and are not afraid to act in accordance with them, at least some of the time.

The most stable, and therefore the healthiest, self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than unmerited compliments.

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