Alfred Adler

"Remember always that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary."

"Art is the language of the soul."

"To help someone, you must first believe that they can be helped."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

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

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

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

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

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

"Do not be discouraged by your limitations. Use them."

"The question is not whether you have been defeated, but whether you have accepted defeat."

"To be human means to feel inferior."

"Happiness is something that comes to us as a result of our contributions to others."

"We need not fear what we understand."

"A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men in battle."

"Lying lips are abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are his delight."

"Every individual has an inferiority complex and a superiority complex."

"Every wound is the opportunity to mature."

"The main interest of my work is not the treatment of neuroses but the understanding of human nature."

"Striving for superiority is what pushes humanity forward."

"We may not be able to control the events and circumstances in our lives, but we can control how we respond to them."

"A person cannot teach children to behave like children; children must learn how to conduct themselves."

"The young child is not concerned with right and wrong, but rather with what brings pleasure and pain."

"In every moment of our lives, we are either moving toward success or toward failure."

"No one can live without striving; the human soul must have an occupation."

"Our life has meaning only insofar as it has something to do with something beyond itself."

"The ability to keep improving oneself is part of being human."

"Education is the process of creating human beings that function well in a democratic society."

"Life is a task to be completed, and we are responsible for the completion of that task."

"Feeling inferior is the source of all human motivation."