21 Alfred Adler Quotes

Alfred Adler quotes

1. The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

2. To be human means to feel inferior.

3. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

4. Man knows much more than he understands.

5. It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

6. Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

7. The chief danger in life is taking too many precautions.

1. The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

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

3. The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

4. The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

5. Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

6. Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

7. Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

8. I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

9. Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

10. There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others.

11. You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

12. It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

13. Every pampered child becomes a hated child… There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

14. Every neurotic is partly in the right.