The Best Abraham Maslow quotes

What is life for? Life is for you. — Abraham Maslow

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. — Abraham Maslow

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

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

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. — Abraham 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 H. Maslow

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human. — Abraham Maslow

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it…The college would be life–long, for learning can take place all through life. — Abraham Maslow

Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. — Abraham Maslow

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. — Abraham H. Maslow

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self–actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it. — Abraham 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, friends, and family, in one’s backyard. — Abraham Maslow

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion–surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love. — Abraham Maslow

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. — Abraham H. Maslow

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection. — Abraham Maslow

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

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth. — Abraham Maslow

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. — 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. — Abraham H. Maslow

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. — Abraham H. Maslow

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self–actualisation. — Abraham Maslow

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

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general. — Abraham Maslow

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being. — Abraham Maslow

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? …a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? — Abraham Maslow

How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit? — Abraham H. Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. — Abraham Maslow

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. — Abraham Maslow

Obviously 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. — Abraham H. Maslow

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non–evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. — Abraham Maslow

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self–governed than modern psychological theory allows for. — Abraham Maslow

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

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

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. — Abraham H. Maslow

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth. — Abraham Maslow

Self–actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. — Abraham Maslow

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

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

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

To the man who only has a hammer in the Toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. — Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow observed, ‘When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. — Alan Weiss

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail. — Abraham 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 H. Maslow

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. — Abraham Maslow

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don’t want the world as it is today but want to make another world. — Abraham Maslow

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub–verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction. — Abraham Maslow

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion. — Abraham Maslow

Self–actualized people, live more in the real world of nature than in the man–made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world. — Abraham Maslow

Creativeness comes partly out of the unconscious, i.e., is a healthy regression, a temporary turning away from the real world. — Abraham H. Maslow

Sometimes i think we’re alone in the universe, and Sometimes i think we’re not. in either case the idea is quite staggering — Abraham Maslow