Alfred Adler Quotes

An educator’s most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.

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

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

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

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

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.

Man knows much more than he understands.

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!

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

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

Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.

It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.