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....

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

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our....

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

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a....

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....