70 Psychology Quotes To Teach You Something About Yourself (2022)
These psychology quotes will help you understand yourself and inspire you to tap into your potential.
Psychology is the study of the mind. One of the newest branches of science, psychology study’s human thought.
Researchers in this field seek to understand why we do the things we do, what our personality has to do with our choices, and how and why we develop into the beings that we are.
Studies also focus on our emotions, stress, and pretty much every other part of the human condition.
From a psychological perspective, quotes can provide motivation to achieve our goals, give us insight into ourselves and perspective on those around us, and inspiration for contentment.
Use this list of psychology quotes to learn something new about yourself today.
Psychology quotes about attitude
1. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill
2. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” — William James
3. “I’ve always believed that you can think positively just as well as you can think negatively.” – Sugar Ray Robinson
4. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz
5. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” – Brian Tracy
6. “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” – Harry Truman
7. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Harry F. Banks
8. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
9. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
10. “Everything can be taken from a man, but the last of the human freedoms: to choose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances.” – Viktor Frankl
Psychology quotes about happiness
11. “If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.” – Abraham Maslow
12. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl G. Jung
13. “Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not our there is that it’s inside us.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky
14. “Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.” – Albert Schweitzer
15. “We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and only very little from a state of things.” — Sigmund Freud
16. “Once you start making the effort to ‘wake yourself up’—that is, be more mindful in your activities—you suddenly start appreciating life a lot more.” – Robert Biswas-Diener
17. “I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.” – Dalai Lama
18. “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball
19. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney
20. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May Alcott
21. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – William James
22. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” – Mark Twain
23. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway
24. “To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.” – Julian Barnes
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Psychology quotes about the self and human condition
25. “We know what we are but not what we may be.” — Shakespeare
26. “We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.” – Sigmund Freud
27. “If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.” – Jean Piaget
28. “When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat, the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.” – Shawn Achor
29. “The truth is, bad things don’t affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That’s true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.” – Daniel Gilbert
30. “Becoming is better than being.” – Carol S. Dweck
31. “Compassion does not render people tearful idlers, moral weaklings, or passive onlookers; but individuals who will take on the pain of others, even when given the chance to skip out on such difficult action or in anonymous conditions.” – Dacher Keltner
Motivational psychology quotes
32. “Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance.” – Scott Barry Kaufmann
33. “I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 things that do not work.” — Thomas Edison
34. “The brain is wider than the sky.” — Emily Dickinson
35. “I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” — Abraham Lincoln
36. “The best way to find out whether you’re on the right path? Stop looking at the path.” – Marcus Buckingham
37. “Be content with what you have. Rejoice in how things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
38. “When we are open to new possibilities, we find them. Be open and skeptical of everything.” –Todd Kashdan
39. “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” – Carl Rogers
40. “Great spirits have often overcome violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
41. “When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.” – Carl Rogers
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Psychology quotes that make you think
42. “Don’t become a mere recorder of facts but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.” — Ivan Pavlov
43. “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — Shakespeare
44. “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” — Noam Chomsky
45. “Education survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.” — B.F. Skinner
46. “There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.” — Erik Erikson
47. “Much learning does not teach understanding.” — Heraclitus
48. “The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” — Stanley Milgram
49. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
50. “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.” – Erik Erikson
51. “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” – Mo Willems
More Psychology quotes and sayings
52. “Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being.” – Margaret Floy Washburn
53. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare
54. “If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.” – Nicholas Sparks
55. “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.” – William Gibson
56. “Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.” – Charles Dickens
57. “We forget very easily what gives us pain.” – Graham Greene
58. “Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.” – Neale Donald Walsh
59. “The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.” – Wilhelm Reich
60. “If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride.” – Karen Horney
Insightful psychology quotes
61. “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” ― Daniel Keyes
62. “According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.” ― J.K. Rowling
63. “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” ― Carl Gustav Jung
64. “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
65. “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” ― Abraham Maslow
66. “How hurtful it can be to deny one’s true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.” ― June Ahern
67. “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ” ― Carl G. Jung
68. “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” ― Daniel Kahneman
69. “Sometimes, if you want to change a man’s mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.” ― Megan Whalen Turner
70. “Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
What did you learn from these psychology quotes?
The study of psychology is fascinating because humans are fascinating. There is so much that goes on in our brains that we don’t even know about.
More than that, our thoughts and perspectives change as we face new experiences and learn from them.
Because of this, you can spend a lifetime getting to know yourself and there will always be something new to learn.
Did these psychology quotes and sayings provide any insight to who you are or who you want to become? Did they motivate you in some way or convince you to keep a positive attitude? Let us know in the comment section below.
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