American psychologist Abraham Harold Maslow devised the notion of a hierarchy of needs and believed that addressing fundamental physiological requirements thereafter leads people to acquire attachment, then esteem, and lastly self-actualization. He was the first of seven children born to Jewish immigrants from Russia. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in arts in 1930, a master’s degree in psychology in 1931, and a doctorate in philosophy in 1934. Maslow was appointed chair of psychology at Brandeis in 1951 after beginning full-time teaching at Brooklyn College. The humanist-based Maslow is well-known for suggesting that each person should satisfy certain goals in order to succeed. After analysis, Maslow discovered reality-centered achievers.

Abraham H. Maslow Quotes

01. “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

02. “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

03. “It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

04. “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.”
― Abraham Maslow

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

06. “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
― Abraham Maslow

07. “We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”
― Abraham Maslow

08. “Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”
― Abraham Maslow

09. “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

10. “I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
― Abraham Maslow

11. “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
― Abraham Maslow

12. “What one can be, one must be!”
― Abraham H. Maslow

13. “If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.”
― Abraham Maslow

14. “It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

15. “Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.”
― Abraham H. Maslow

16. “False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.”
― Abraham H. Maslow

17. “The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.”
― Abraham Maslow

18. “In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

19. “If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.”
― Abraham H. Maslow

20. “Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

21. “Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.”
― Abraham Maslow

22. “Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”
― Abraham Maslow

23. “Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

24. “creativeness comes partly out of the unconscious, i.e., is a healthy regression, a temporary turning away from the real world.”
― Abraham Maslow

25. “Het is niet normaal om te weten wat we willen. Dat is een enorme en uitzonderlijke psychologische prestatie.”
― Abraham Maslow

26. “When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

27. “How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit?”
― Abraham Maslow

28. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety.”
― Abraham Maslow

29. “If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

30. “When all you’ve got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

31. “Orthodox science today attempts to be free not only of values but also of emotions. As youngsters would say, it tries to be “cool”.”
― Abraham H. Maslow

32. “Capacities clamor to be used, and cease to clamor only when they are well used.”
― Abraham H. Maslow

33. “As always, dichotomizing pathologizes (and pathology dichotomizes).”
― Abraham H. Maslow

34. “We all have everything we need within us to create our fullest potential.”
― Abraham H. Maslow

35. “If swindling pays, then it will not stop. […] you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

36. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

37. “In any given moment we have two options:
To step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
― Abraham H. Maslow

38. “Religionizing” only one part of life secularizes the rest of it.”
― Abraham H. Maslow

39. “All that is needed for science to be a help in positive human fulfillment is an enlarging and deepening of the conception of its nature, its goals and its methods.”
― Abraham H. Maslow