251 Quotes by Abraham Maslow

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often, if not always, expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he is fitted for. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet

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.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction...

About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the most secure individuals in our society, who comprise perhaps five or ten per cent at most.

...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.

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, treat everything as if it were a nail.

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.