| 38 Famous Quotes by Alfred Adler
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“If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.”
Affliction Quotes |
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“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.”
Complaints Quotes |
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“I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning”
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“In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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!”
Mistakes Quotes |
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“Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among”
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“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!”
Persistence Quotes |
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“All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest”
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“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.”
Unity Quotes |
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“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Principles Quotes |
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“The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.”
Behavior Quotes |
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“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Fight Quotes |
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“It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.”
Patriotism Quotes |
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“There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.”
Pressure Quotes |
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“Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.”
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“It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“Man knows more than he understands.”
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“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!”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.”
Aggression Quotes |
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“The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.”
Behavior Quotes |
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“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
Caution Quotes |
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“To be human means to feel inferior.”
Existence Quotes |
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“There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.”
Love Quotes |
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Alfred Adler Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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