Maxwell Maltz

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We are injured and hurt emotionally not so much by other people or what they say and dont say but by our own attitude and our own response.

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

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.

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

Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when youre standing still.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

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.

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.

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.

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

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

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

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

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

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

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

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

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

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

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

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

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.

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.