Abraham Maslow Quotes - Page 2

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• The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Giving Up, Selfish, Perfect

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivation, Self

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• 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

  Stupid, Men, Trying

  Abraham H. Maslow (1973). “On Dominance, Self-Esteem, and Self-Actualization”, p.169, Maurice Bassett

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• What is life for? Life is for you.

  Abraham Maslow

  Healing, Life Is, What Is Life

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• We do what we are and we are what we do.

  Abraham Maslow

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• It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

  Abraham Maslow

  Achievement, Desire, Want

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• The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Fate, Wonderful

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• We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

  Abraham Maslow

  World, Able, Lost

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• The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

  Abraham Maslow

  Ignorance, Miracle, Family And Friends

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hope, Motivation, Fear

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• No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Psychological Health, Care

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• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Men, Race

  As quoted in "Road Signs for Success" y Jim Whitt, (p. 61), 1993.

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• We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

  Abraham Maslow

  Work, Inspiration, Calling

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• Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

  Abraham Maslow

  Block, Communication, Needs

  "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow (p. 23), 1954.

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• 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

  Safety, Choices, Risk

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• People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

  Abraham Maslow

  People, Evil

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• 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

  Class, Unhappy, Firsts

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• The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

  Abraham Maslow

  Loss, Discovery, Identity

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

  Abraham Maslow

  Independent, People, Opinion

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.

  Abraham Maslow

  Order, Safety, Insecurity

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.260, John Wiley & Sons

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• We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfect, Glimpse, Moments

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Safety, Growth, Have Faith

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• The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Views, Giving, Answers

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.193, John Wiley & Sons

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• Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

  Abraham Maslow

  Real, Men, Self

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