Maxwell Maltz Quotes

"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."

"You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life -- to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility. Accept it, now!"

"Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead."

"Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality."

"We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response."

"To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior."

"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone."

"Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself."

"You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you."

"You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search."

"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."

"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."

"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."

"Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward."

"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel."

"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act."

"The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior."

"For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination."

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."