Abraham Maslow Fear Quotations

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

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

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.

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.