251 Quotes by Abraham Maslow

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

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

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.