15+ Motivational Abraham Maslow Quotes

Friends, in today's blog post, we bring you some of the best quotes by Abraham Maslow that will motivate you to move forward in your life.

• “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
• “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.” – Abraham Maslow
•  “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
•  “Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual.” – Abraham Maslow
• “If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.” – Abraham Maslow
•  “The fact is that people are good. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.” – Abraham Maslow
• “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.”
• “The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.”
•  “One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.” – Abraham Maslow
• “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” – Abraham Maslow
•  “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” – Abraham Maslow.
• “It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” – Abraham Maslow.
•  “Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”
•  "Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy, and suffering. –"Abraham Maslow.
• “I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act.”- Abraham Maslow.