Abraham Maslow Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The most successful people in the world are those who can recognize what their own unique talent or gift is, and then cultivate it.

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.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

We fear our highest possibilities, as well as our lowest ones.

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

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

If you only look at what people say, you’ll never understand their deeper needs.

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.

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?

A good percentage of creative people suffer from that fear of worthlessness.

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

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.

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.

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health, and self-fulfillment.

The key question is, when does a belief prevent psychic growth and when does it promote it?

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

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

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

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

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

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, and poets must write if they are to ultimately be at peace with themselves.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

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

We fear our highest possibilities, as well as our lowest ones.

True education can be achieved only through passionate interest in the work itself.

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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

To become a fuller, happier person, we must move toward what we instinctively love.

The creative person is more primitive, more barbaric, more savage, more independently functioning, more heedless of the opinions of his contemporaries, more indifferent to criticism and encouragement alike than the average person.

To be human means to be constantly in the process of becoming.

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

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

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

If you are not as you ought to be, how could you be satisfied?

You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life’s challenges: you get to find out that you’re capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.

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

The fully developed musician or artist or writer is a whole person who can perform many functions – even about channeling the rest of us.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

To the extent that we are powerful, we are also responsible for what we do.

The final purpose of love life is to appreciate life.

One must first have a decent stable ego, a strong sense of identity and the ability to tolerate a lot of confusion.

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