Top 38 Abraham Maslow Quotes on Life (SUCCESS)

Top 10 Most Famous Abraham Maslow Quotes (BEST)

“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.”
Abraham Maslow

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. — 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.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that is is to be found in one’s daily life.

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

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.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil. — All of life is **education** and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

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. — 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.

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. — 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.

14 Inspirational Abraham Maslow Quotes About Life (SELF-ACTUALIZATION)

“A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.”
Abraham Maslow

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

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself. — Every person is, in part, ‘his own project’ and makes himself.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. — One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities.

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. — 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.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day. — Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of **fear** and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and **growth**). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. — We **fear** to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

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 enough from blunders to correct them eventually. — 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** enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. — **Marriage** is a school itself. Also, having **children**. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. — One of the goals of **education** should be to teach that life is precious.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. — **Education** can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation. — The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved **respect** from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

14 Wise Abraham Maslow Quotes (WISDOM)

“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.”
Abraham Maslow