Quotes by Psychologists - Page 3

The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
William James
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us but that we will hear Him.
William McGill
If you want a quality act as if you already had it.
William James
If you want your children to improve let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by travelling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Charles Baudouin
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
Mildred Newman
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
William James
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.
William James
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.
William James
In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
William James
Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
William James
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
Henry Link
Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Havelock Ellis
The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy you have only yourself to blame.
David E. Bresler
That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.
Erich Fromm
No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.
Havelock Ellis
We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.
Arnold Lazarus
I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Every theory of love from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Melba Colgrove
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
Rollo May
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Robert Lindner
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too.
Erich Fromm
Think sideways!
Edward de Bono
Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.
Margaret A. Ribble
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
William James
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William James
The shrewd guess the fertile hypothesis the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.
Jerome S. Bruner
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
William James
The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.
Herb Goldberg
If you do not express your own original ideas if you do not listen to your own being you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
William James
Instinct is untaught ability.
Alexander Bain
Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.
Rollo May
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Havelock Ellis
An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
William James
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
Havelock Ellis
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
Hope never abandons you you abandon it.
George Weinberg
Anger cannot be dishonest.
George R. Bach
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'
William James
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.
Douglas McGregor
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.
Mary Field Belenky