Abraham Maslow

"One's own growth is, as a rule, paid for dearly by friends who prefer you the way you were."

"Everything I have said so far is relative to the present time and present state of our knowledge."

"In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step backward into safety."

"It seems that the best creative people in all fields are grateful for everything that happens to them."

"To understand creativity, we must abandon the tendency to think of it as a rare, hermitic, aristocratic sort of attribute."

"Self-actualized people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again the basic goods of life."

"The fear of knowledge is often rooted in a fear of its consequences."

"Love is a teacher, but one must want to learn."

"Being human is the most important thing."

"Psychology has so far failed at the great human problems of values, meanings, and purposes."

"The way your employees feel is ultimately the way your customers feel."

"Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself."

"I have discovered that most of the people in our culture are on a kind of sub-level of living."

"Truth is something that follows your pursuit of it."

"The full knowledge of human nature is worth more than abstract knowledge of any particular science."

"What is the use of health if it is not used to do some good in the world?"

"Perhaps my wish to investigate the theory of human motivation is in part a result of the fact that I have never been satisfied by a psychological theory that reduced the human being to an empty organism."

"Art is a natural outcome of the human tendency toward self-expression and growth."

"The fundamental lesson we must learn as human beings is that we are not victims of life."

"Dreams serve a profound function in our psychological development."

"To be healthy is to be oneself."

"The only way to know how high you can jump is to use your legs."

"Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"Values are caught, not taught."

"In the long run, a man hits only what he aims at."

"There are not enough people who are willing to pay the price of growth."

"The human being needs challenges; he needs to be tested."

"Everything looks different to me now when I realize that I'm dying."

"History, as it is often written, distorts the human story."