Abraham Harold Maslow, also called Abraham H. Maslow, was an American psychologist and a philosopher who was a specialist in humanistic psychology. He was noted for his development of a hierarchy of needs that were used to diagnose human motivation; it made him world-known. He also worked on the concept of self-actualization, which also opened gates for his success.
He was born on April 1, 1908, and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He was always a thriving researcher, even while growing up. He studied psychology at the University of Wisconsin and Gestalt psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He, for a while, pursued teaching at Brooklyn College.
His renowned written works include Motivation and Personality (1954) and Toward a Psychology of Being (1962).
He was one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. He considered himself to be a psychological pioneer. For him, the greatest inspiration was Max Wertheimer, a Gestalt psychologist.
His words were an inspiration for us. Here are some of the best Abraham Maslow Quotes and sayings for you.
What a man can be, he must be.
A person is a whole set of possibilities in himself. He has aspirations, and he has a purpose. Whatever you want yourself to be, you must be.
Don't let other Mendel in your life. Don't try to change your true self.
Become what your heart desires because that is your purpose.
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
When a person has the mindset to never give up without a good fight, he becomes a man with a hammer, and the difficulties become like a nail.
Every obstacle becomes just a mere task for him.
You must hold that spirit too. It makes you feel stronger.
It isn't normal to know what we want.
It takes a good period and multiple experiences to learn what your real desires are. You have to acknowledge your heart for that.
It isn't easy to be able to figure out your mission. Sometimes what you think you want is a passing phase.
It takes time. It takes the erudition of the self.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
No one can seek a new persona unless you change your vision of self. There is more to you than you know.
You have more to learn about yourself. To be able to hold a new self, you have to find your new self.
Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Growth isn't an object that is achieved and kept. It is a gradual process. You would need to evolve with time-to-time.
After every adventure, every fall, you will rise and improve. And then again, you will fall and then progress. You have to strive every time. Growth is a lifelong journey.
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If you plan on being anything less than what you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
To live a good, satisfying life, you have to fulfill your every craving. Don't be okay in living half of what you deserve.
You have to gain a profound passion for achieving every possible thing you want. You will have to walk on the path of your dreams.
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.
When you are drawn into the pit of intricacies, you must keep moving on and inhale everything no matter what the odds are.
Keep faith in your heart and fight till your last breath.
Hope is what is the most essential for your survival.
With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic.
The purpose of this quote is to let you hope that even after living at the worst parcel, things change, and your life becomes better.
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
Education should not just teach facts or theorem. It should be about the reality of life.
A good teacher must teach the growing kids the importance of their life. They must give an insight into how precious they are and their lives are.
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The ability to be in the present moment is a component of mental wellness.
The purity of your mental status begins when you start to acknowledge your present time. When you drop the affliction of the past and the doubts of your future, you become mentally free.
You must start to live in the present and enjoy every passing second.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
When you are doing something that you don't want to, you remain unsatisfied and gloomy even when you are successful and attain a lot.
Even when you fail at things you are passionate about, you still feel worth it, you still remain happy and determined to keep moving.
Do what your heart tells you to.
At any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
Even when we are deprived of everything, we always own a choice.
The choice to keep still in a position, to become numb to growth. If we choose this option, the life becomes light-less and purposeless.
Always choose to keep moving forward. Your destination is approached only after a journey of flowering out of struggles.
To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.
Stop trying to look for magic and happiness. Wherever you are or whatever you are, you are blessed with magic.
You are magic, your life is magic, and your dreams are magic. You must have the wisdom to acknowledge it.
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.
People who are aware of their true selves understand their potential and know their motives are bloomed enough to live in the superficial world.
The man-made world is a façade. People who enjoy their selves only feel to fit in the raw world of nature. They don't need validations from the so-called 'society'.
The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
One must learn to appreciate the little primes of life. Your loved ones, your pets, your toys, your diaries, these are some basic entities of life that you should always be fond of.
Practice becoming more grateful in life. Learn to be elated by the tiny gifts of life.
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
Learn to be open to the realities of life, no matter how pinching it is.
Don't live in denial because it will end up hurting you even more than you must. Let it sink in you. Let it hurt you as much as it could.
Don't scorn the pains of life. It never benefits you.
One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
There is no such thing as a failure. No one fails by not winning.
One only fails when they give up. One fails when he does not give his best to attain his goals.
Don't limit yourself. Make your efforts roar. Do everything you can to become what you are capable of becoming.
Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection.
In life, a person must endear every pain. People have to be hurt to be able to grow. No one can live a fruitful life without being wretched and heartbroken. Being shut from grieving emotions will make them stiff and oblivious to true joys.
Everyone has to suffer. Everyone has to feel pain. Only then they will be able to feel happiness and glory.
What you don't know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
Knowledge is the best weapon. It is the best preparation when it comes to life.
When you know, you understand, and once you understand, you are ready to go through anything.
With the apt knowledge, the choices in any terms become apparent. Things become easier with the correct education.
You must want to be first-class.
You can only become a fine diamond and shine only after you believe yourself to be one.
Don't underestimate your abilities. You have great potential, even greater than you know.
Permit yourself to fly. Don't hold yourself back.
