251 Quotes by Abraham Maslow

If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

What one can be, one must be!

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. 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.