Quotes of Alfred Adler - somelinesforyou

“ Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ Life is just the same as learning to swim. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them many times over – what do you find? That you can swim? Well – life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! ”

- Alfred Adler

“ There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it, he must perish. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! ”

- Alfred Adler

“ Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery. ”

- Alfred Adler

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

- Alfred Adler

“ There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. ”

- Alfred Adler
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