28 Quotes by Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow was a prominent American psychologist who is best known for his hierarchy of needs theory. He believed that human needs are arranged in a pyramid-shaped hierarchy, with basic physiological needs such as food, water, and shelter forming the foundation, followed by safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs at the top. Maslow believed that people strive to fulfill their needs in a hierarchical order, with the most basic needs taking priority. He also emphasized the importance of self-actualization, which involves realizing one’s full potential and achieving personal growth. (Bio)
Abraham Maslow Quotes
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.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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 only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. (Meaning)
One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities.
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.
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
Every person is, in part, ‘his own project’ and makes himself.
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
What one can be, one must be!
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves
What is life for? Life is for you.
We do what we are and we are what we do.
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
What a man can be, he must be. (Meaning)
― Abraham Maslow Quotes
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