Abraham Maslow

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen, again and again, fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life."

- Abraham Maslow

"Almost all creativity involves purposeful play."

- Abraham 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 Maslow

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day."

- Abraham Maslow

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

- Abraham 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 Maslow

""If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.""

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

"Step forward into growth or back into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

"Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to ultimately be at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be."

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow