The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being. Abraham Maslow More Quotes by Abraham Maslow More Quotes From Abraham Maslow The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg. Abraham Maslow humorousgodsilly The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. Abraham Maslow importanthappinesspeople 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. Abraham Maslow givingrealitypeople Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. Abraham Maslow communicationlanguageway You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities. Abraham Maslow unhappyclassfirsts One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. Abraham Maslow life-is-preciousgoalshould 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 motivationselflife Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general." Abraham Maslow motivationreflectionself What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont. Abraham Maslow doehappinessmean If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl Abraham Maslow safetyrealityneeds A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. Abraham Maslow musicinspirationalpeace We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity. Abraham Maslow maturitysafetychoices What is life for? Life is for you. Abraham Maslow what-is-lifehealinglife-is I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities. Abraham Maslow takenmenthinking 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. Abraham Maslow motivationhopefear Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself. Abraham Maslow projectspersons When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth. Abraham Maslow roaringgoalordinary It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. Abraham Maslow achievementwantdesire What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others. Abraham Maslow be-true-to-yourselfguiltmay A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is. Abraham Maslow stupidtryingmen
