Alfred Adler Quotes
Top 50 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory ... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
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.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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.
The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart.
Violence as a way of gaining power ... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security ...
Every pampered child becomes a hated child ... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.