Top 10 Quotes Of Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow was a psychologist from the United States who developed a hierarchy of needs to explain human motivation. According to his theory, people have several basic needs that must be met before moving up the hierarchy to pursue more social, emotional, and self-actualizing needs.

Abraham Maslow was born on April 1, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York, the first of seven children born to his Russian-born Jewish parents. Later in life, Maslow described his early childhood as unhappy and lonely. He spent a lot of time in the library, surrounded by books.

Maslow attended City College of New York and majored in law (CCNY). He transferred to the University of Wisconsin after developing an interest in psychology and finding a mentor in psychologist Harry Harlow, who served as his doctoral advisor. Maslow received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in psychology from the University of Wisconsin.

10 Quotes Of Abraham Maslow

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

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ” – Abraham Maslow

“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.” – Abraham Maslow

“But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. ” – Abraham Maslow

“One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. “ – Abraham Maslow

“With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is. ” – Abraham Maslow

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.” – Abraham Maslow

“We may define therapy as a search for value. Abraham Maslow If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.” – Abraham Maslow

“Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot. “ – Abraham Maslow

“Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.” – Abraham Maslow