It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. Alfred Adler More Quotes by Alfred Adler More Quotes From 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 riskrealmay The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power. Alfred Adler psychologygoalfeelings Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you. Alfred Adler follow-your-heartheartremember We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. Alfred Adler bad-temperinferioritytemper To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Alfred Adler emotionalpowerfulmean It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler wisdomcourageinspirational God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. Alfred Adler fatestarsgod Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit. Alfred Adler pursuitplaychildren It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others. Alfred Adler trust-otherswell-knownnever-trust Everything can always be different! Alfred Adler different seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. Alfred Adler empathyeyeheart The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. Alfred Adler soulgoalperfection There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow. Alfred Adler wellssorrow No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler congratulationsfailuresuccess The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler danger-in-lifelife-is-goodself-esteem The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. Alfred Adler truthlyingreality The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. Alfred Adler motivationinspirationmen 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 educationmotivationalinspirational The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another. Alfred Adler mindorderchildren 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 strugglefeelingslife
