Alfred Adler idézet

„A hazudós gyerek mögött könnyű fellelni a szigorú szülőt.“

—  Alfred Adler

„Embernek lenni annyit jelent, hogy kisebbrendűnek érzi magát, s emiatt állandóan saját magát igyekszik legyőzni.“

—  Alfred Adler

„Élni annyi, mint fejlődni…“

—  Alfred Adler

Forrás: BUZÁS Norbert (szerk.): Innováció menedzsment a gyakorlatban

„Könnyebb az elveinkért harcolni, mint azokkal összhangban élni.“

—  Alfred Adler

„Minden ember arra törekszik, hogy jelentőségre tegyen szert, de hiába, ha nem látjuk, hogy egész jelentőségük annyi, amennyit másokért teszünk.“

—  Alfred Adler

„Egyszerűbb az elvárások ellen küzdeni, mint felnőni hozzájuk.“

—  Alfred Adler

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

—  Alfred Adler

„Follow your heart but take your brain with you.“

—  Alfred Adler

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

—  Alfred Adler

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

—  Alfred Adler

Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories (1929)

„A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.“

—  Alfred Adler

„It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.“

—  Alfred Adler

Forrás: What Life Could Mean to You

„seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.“

—  Alfred Adler

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

—  Alfred Adler

„He used to say to his melancholia patients:
"You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.“

—  Alfred Adler

„Man knows much more than he understands.“

—  Alfred Adler

As quoted in A Primer of Adlerian Psychology: The Analytic-Behavioural-Cognitive Psychology of Alfred Adler (1999) by Harold H. Mosak and Michael P. Maniacci

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

—  Alfred Adler

What Life Should Mean to You (1937), p. 14

„To be human means to feel inferior.“

—  Alfred Adler

Statement of 1933, as quoted in Contemporary Theories and Systems in Psychology (1960) by Benjamin B. Wolman, p. 288

„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.“

—  Alfred Adler

From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" ("Fortschritte der Individualpsychologie", 1923), a journal article by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives.