50 Quotes by Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist who is best known for his development of individual psychology. Adler believed that individuals are motivated by social and interpersonal factors, rather than purely instinctual drives as proposed by Sigmund Freud. Adler's theories have had a lasting impact on psychology and psychotherapy, and his ideas continue to be relevant to modern understanding of the human psyche. (Bio)
Alfred Adler Quotes
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. (Meaning)
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. (Quote Meaning)
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. (Meaning)
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart (Quote Meaning)
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. (Meaning)
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. (Quote Meaning)
Expression is the dress of thought. (Meaning)
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. (Quote Meaning)
Never find fault with the absent. (Meaning)
All nature is but art unknown to thee. (Quote Meaning)
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. (Meaning)
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. (Quote Meaning)
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. (Meaning)
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye. (Quote Meaning)
The sound must seem an echo to the sense. (Meaning)
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. (Quote Meaning)
Whatever is, is right. (Meaning)
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. (Quote Meaning)
Die of a rose in aromatic pain. (Meaning)
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. (Quote Meaning)
And die of nothing but a rage to live. (Meaning)
On wrongs swift vengeance waits. (Quote Meaning)
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. (Meaning)
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. (Quote Meaning)
chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd. (Meaning)
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead. (Quote Meaning)
Every woman is at heart a rake. (Meaning)
Consult the Genius of the Place in all. (Quote Meaning)
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate. (Meaning)
Hope springs eternal. (Quote Meaning)
He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that. (Meaning)
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. (Quote Meaning)
And not a vanity is given in vain. (Meaning)
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state. (Quote Meaning)
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind. (Meaning)
So perish all who do the like again. (Quote Meaning)
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. (Meaning)
Wit and judgment often are at strife. (Quote Meaning)
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. (Meaning)
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. (Quote Meaning)
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. (Meaning)
Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived forever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. (Quote Meaning)
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. (Meaning)
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. (Quote Meaning)
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. (Meaning)
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. (Quote Meaning)
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. (Meaning)
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. (Quote Meaning)
Follow your heart but take your brain with you. (Meaning)
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. (Quote Meaning)
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. (Meaning)
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. (Quote Meaning)
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority and you must deal with him from that point of view. (Meaning)
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. (Quote Meaning)
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. (Meaning)
Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. (Quote Meaning)
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
Everything can always be different!
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. (Meaning)
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. (Quote Meaning)
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. (Meaning)
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. (Quote Meaning)
Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. (Meaning)
Man knows much more than he understands.
To be human means to feel inferior.
My difficulties belong to me!
― Alfred Adler Quotes
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