Abraham Maslow

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people’s highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

Abraham Maslow

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

Abraham Maslow

The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

Abraham Maslow

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

Abraham Maslow

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

Abraham Maslow

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

Abraham Maslow

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

Abraham Maslow

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

Abraham Maslow

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

Abraham Maslow