Top 34 Quotes by 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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

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