Maxwell Maltz Quotes

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

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

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

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

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.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

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.

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

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

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.

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

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

Times will change for the better when you change.

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

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

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

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.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

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

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

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.

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.

It takes 21 days to develop a habit.

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-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

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

Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.

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.

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.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

When you believe you can... you can!

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

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.

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

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

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.