Abraham Maslow quotes

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

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

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
- 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 I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
- Abraham Maslow

What one can be, one must be!
- 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 Maslow

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham 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

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
- Abraham Maslow

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that is is to be found in one’s daily life.
- Abraham Maslow