Abraham Harold Maslow was born on 1 April 1908 and died on 8 June 1970. He was an American psychologist who presented a theory of mental health called Maslow’s Hierarchical Theory of Motivation. Maslow was a professor of psychology at several colleges and universities. In the context of the study of personality, he was in favor of humanistic psychology. In his influential 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that healthy humans have definite needs, and that these are organized in a hierarchy. His theory suggested that people have a number of basic needs that must be met before people move up the hierarchy to pursue more social, emotional, and self-actualizing needs. Here we present you the best Abraham Maslow quotes on Education, Fear, Child Development, Self Actualization and more.
Abraham Maslow Quotes
- “A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or inconsistency in the parents seems to make a child feel anxious and unsafe. This attitude may not be so mu”
- “Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing,”
- “To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences.”
“He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.”
- “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
- “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 story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”
- “Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”
- “We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”
- “Too many of the findings that have been made in animals have been proven to be true for animals, but not for the human being. There is no reason whatsoever why we should start with animals in order to study human motivation.”
- “Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood”
- “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.”
- “A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.”
- “Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.” – Abraham Maslow
- “The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that is is to be found in one’s daily life.”
- “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Abraham Maslow
- “Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.” Abraham Maslow
“Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”
- “I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act.”
- “I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.”
- “The key question isn’t, what fosters creativity? But it is, why isn’t everyone creative?”
- “It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.”
- . “The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.”
- “The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.”
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- “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.
- “Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.”
- 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.
- 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.
- You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
- What one can be, one must be!
- What is life for? Life is for you.
- “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”
- “We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.”
- “The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.”
- “All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”
- “You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”
- “Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”
- A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
- I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
- The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
- Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege
- Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
- I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
