Top 200 Psychology Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.”

— Brené Brown

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2. “Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes

3. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”

— Brené Brown

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4. “Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Depression Quotes

5. “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”

— Sigmund Freud

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams, Mind Quotes

6. “Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

7. “The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Happy Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

8. “Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

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9. “Self-efficacy is the belief in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.”

— Albert Bandura

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes

10. “Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike.”

— Daniel Goleman

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Intelligence Quotes

11. “The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

12. “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.”

— Abraham Maslow

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Humanism Quotes

13. “As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.”

— Virginia Satir

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes

14. “Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences.”

— B. F. Skinner

15. “Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.”

— Aaron T. Beck

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Depression Quotes

16. “You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”

— Abraham Maslow

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17. “The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.”

— Sigmund Freud

Also featured in: Ego Quotes

18. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Mind Quotes, Important Quotes

19. “The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

20. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Personality Quotes, Important Quotes

21. “Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

22. “What you resist, persists.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

23. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

24. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Self-Realization Quotes, Reflection Quotes

25. “Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you’re feeling. To have the hard conversations.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

26. “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

27. “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.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Patience Quotes, Deep Quotes

28. “In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”

— Carol S. Dweck

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Education Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes

29. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Mind Quotes, Sad Quotes

30. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

— Carl R. Rogers

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Education Quotes, Learning Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

31. “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

— William James

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Positivity Quotes

32. “I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Darkness Quotes

33. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

34. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Self-Realization Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

35. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Struggle Quotes

36. “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Mind Quotes, Ego Quotes

37. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes

38. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

— William James

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes, Mind Quotes

39. “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Addiction Quotes, Sobriety Quotes

40. “To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Problem-Solving Quotes

41. “Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”

— C.G. Jung

42. “When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

43. “Shame is a soul eating emotion.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Mind Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

44. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”

— Hans Selye

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Wellness Quotes, Stress Quotes, Anxiety Quotes

45. “Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

46. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Quotes About People, Soul Quotes

47. “Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Healing Quotes, Silence Quotes

48. “Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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49. “Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.”

— Shawn Achor

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Optimistic Quotes

50. “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.”

— Brené Brown

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