Maxwell Maltz
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.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Courage
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.Collection: Brainy
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.Collection: Moving
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.Collection: Failure
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.Collection: Change
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Imagination
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.Collection: Success
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.Collection: Alone
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
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.
Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
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.
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.
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.
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.Collection: Self Esteem
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.Collection: Cybernetics
The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.Collection: Mistake
The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.Collection: Life Is
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.Collection: Successful
The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.Collection: Acceptance
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.Collection: Mean
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.Collection: Self Esteem
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.Collection: Life
A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.Collection: Business
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.Collection: Self Esteem
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Motivational
Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.Collection: Matter
Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.Collection: Confusion
Happiness is the art of relaxation.Collection: Art
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.Collection: Cybernetics
I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green.Collection: Thinking
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.Collection: Happiness
It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.Collection: Lying
One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.Collection: Capacity
Ignore past failures and forge ahead.Collection: Failure
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.Collection: Real
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Motivational
Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.Collection: Motivational
An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.Collection: Powerful
Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.Collection: Frustration