Abraham H. 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 H. Maslow

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

— Abraham H. Maslow

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

— Abraham H. Maslow

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

— Abraham H. Maslow

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

— Abraham H. Maslow

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.

— Abraham H. Maslow

Obviously 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.

— Abraham H. Maslow

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

— Abraham H. Maslow

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

— Abraham H. Maslow

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

— Abraham H. Maslow