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Maxwell Maltz Quotes



Quotes by Maxwell Maltz - (40 quotes)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Acceptance category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Accomplishment category:

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Adventure category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Aging category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Anxiety category:

Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Change category:

Times will change for the better when you change. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Change category:

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Competition category:

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

Maxwell Maltz - From the Concentration category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Courage category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Creativity category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Desperation category:

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Destiny category:

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... (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Difficulty category:

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.' (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Discovery category:

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Effort category:

Conscious effort inhibits and jams the automatic creative mechanism. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Ego category:

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Experience category:

- Psycho-Cybernetics...
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real experience. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Fear category:

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Friendship category:

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Future category:

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Goals category:

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Habit category:

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Happiness category:

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

Maxwell Maltz - From the Ideas category:

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Imagination category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Keys category:

The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Loneliness category:

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Mistakes category:

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Mistakes category:

I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Opportunity category:

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

Maxwell Maltz - From the Opportunity category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Power category:

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Progress category:

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

Maxwell Maltz - From the Purpose category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Risk category:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Selling category:

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Winning category:

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is... always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Winning category:

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind. (Maxwell Maltz)

Maxwell Maltz - From the Worth category:

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile... (Maxwell Maltz)