Alfred Adler

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The greatest invention is imagination."

"We are not determined by our heredity and environment; we make ourselves."

"Everybody can be significant, because everybody can serve."

"Man knows much more than he understands."

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."

"It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men that has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the most injury to others."

"One cannot look at the world with open eyes without realizing that everything that happens is governed by desire for power."

"The educator must believe in the potential power of his student, and this belief itself may provide the spark of inspiration that calls forth the best effort."

"My difficulties belong to me."

"Striving for significance, feeling competent, feeling valued, feeling able."

"A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water."

"Be as you wish to seem."

"The question is not whether you will love, win and succeed or fail. The real question is: 'Are you willing to struggle?'"

"Feelings are not facts."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"Community feeling is a barometer of mental health."

"Many people do not really feel alive until they are loved. But the difficulty is that unless you love, you cannot be loved."

"The chief evil is that the present day parent and teacher is at a loss how to exercise proper discipline."

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic cords, we feel a responsibility for the actions of those fibers."

"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses one towards its conquest."

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it, he will perish."

"We must interpret a dream so that it coheres with the awakening life of the dreamer."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."

"Success depends particularly upon knowing how much of an idea is necessary to move the world."

"Courage is action in spite of fear."