Abraham Maslow

If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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.

I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

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.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.