Adler - It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

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"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong,"



원칙과 신념에 따라 살지도 못하는 작자들이 원칙과 신념을 위해 싸우는 것은 좋아한다

“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them” ~ Alfred Adler
"원칙에 따라 사는 것보다 원칙을 위해 싸우는 것이 더 쉽다." ~ 알프레드 아들러

알프레트 아들러 Alfred Adler

알프레트 아들러(독일어: Alfred Adler, 1870년 2월 7일~1937년 5월 28일)는 오스트리아의 의사, 심리치료사이다.

빈에서 태어난 유대계 오스트리아인으로 개인심리학의 창시자이다



원칙과 신념대로 살지도 못하는 작자들이 원칙과 신념을 위해 싸우기는 좋아한다

“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them” ~ Alfred Adler



Alfred Adler's quotes often touch on the idea that we determine the meaning of our experiences and that social interest is crucial for psychological well-being. Key themes include the belief that feeling inferior is a fundamental part of being human, that the only normal people are those you don't know well, and that success comes from living up to our principles rather than just fighting for them.

On human experience and meaning

"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".

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

"To be human means to feel inferior".
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority".




Alfred Adler Quotes

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Alfred Adler


We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.

Alfred Adler

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Alfred Adler

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Alfred Adler

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

Alfred Adler

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

Alfred Adler

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!

Alfred Adler

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts"
but by our interpretation of the facts.

Alfred Adler

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". Book by Alfred Adler (p. 14), 1937.


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!

Alfred Adler

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

Alfred Adler

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

Alfred Adler

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

Alfred Adler

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression‎ of the feeling of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

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

Alfred Adler

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1927-1931”, p.64, Alfred Adler Institute


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.

Alfred Adler

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

Alfred Adler

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

Alfred Adler

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Alfred Adler

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

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

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

Alfred Adler

My difficulties belong to me!

Alfred Adler

To be human means to feel inferior.