251 Quotes by Abraham Maslow

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

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.

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.