Abraham Maslow Quotes

We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

What is life for? Life is for you.

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.

The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

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.

Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

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.