Abraham Maslow Quotes
Browse 11 quotes from Abraham Maslow, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk for the sake of progress and growth. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”
“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.”
“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”
“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety.”
“Self-actualization is the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.”
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
“Self-actualized people don't sacrifice their potentialities in the service of others; rather, they use their full powers in the service of others.”
