QUOTES

Quotes by Abraham Harold Maslow

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"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 ..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their fee..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"Be independent of the good opinion of other people."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject ano..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"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 ..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"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 e..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"What one can be, one must be!"
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"Self-actualized people… live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectatio..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcom..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic good..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, u..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"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, frien..."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"In any given moment we have two opinions: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety."
- Abraham Harold Maslow
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
- Abraham Harold Maslow