Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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

"You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment."

"When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower"

"One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center."

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

"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."

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

"Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today."

"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."

"It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent."

"People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' / to work for and hope for."

"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."