Quotes by : Abraham H. Maslow

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen,....

To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying,....

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and....

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being,....

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development....

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away,....

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one....

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others....