To be human means To feel inferior. — Alfred Adler

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. — Alfred Adler

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. — Alfred Adler

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. — Alfred Adler

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. — Alfred Adler

Every neurotic is partly in the right. — Alfred Adler

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. — Alfred Adler

To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self–accusations. — Alfred Adler

It is one of the triumphs of human wit … to conquer by humility and submissiveness … to make oneself small in order to appear great … such … are often the expedients of the neurotic. — Alfred Adler

In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. — Viktor E. Frankl

Violence as a way of gaining power… is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security. — Alfred Adler

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. — Alfred Adler

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted. — Alfred Adler

Tears and complaints–the means which I have called water power–can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery. — Alfred Adler

All failures are so because they lack social interest. — Alfred Adler

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure…There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal. — Alfred Adler

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty–five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished. — Alfred Adler

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! — Alfred Adler

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. — Alfred Adler

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. — Alfred Adler

It is easy to believe that life is long and one’s gifts are vast––easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all. — Alfred Adler

Every pampered child becomes a hated child…. There is no greater evil than the pampering of children. — Alfred Adler

Whenever a child lies you will find a severe parent. a lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt to be dangerous. — Alfred Adler

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. — Alfred Adler

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles. — Alfred Adler

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. — Alfred Adler

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. — Alfred Adler

Follow your heart but take your brain with you. — Alfred Adler

We must never neglect the patient’s own use of his symptoms. — Alfred Adler

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling. — Alfred Adler

We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart. — Alfred Adler

If you don’t know where your going there you are! — Alfred Adler

Man knows much more than he understands. — Alfred Adler

The test of one’s behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one’s work, relationship to sex. — Alfred Adler

I am grateful for the idea that has used me. — Alfred Adler

Everything can always be different! — Alfred Adler

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. — Alfred Adler

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. — Alfred Adler

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. — Alfred Adler

If I didn’t have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if–clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient’s own arrangement, which only he can change. — Alfred Adler

Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. — Alfred Adler

It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others. — Alfred Adler

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity. — Alfred Adler

My difficulties belong to me! — Alfred Adler