Maxwell Maltz Quotes
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.
Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.
Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.
A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
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.
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.
It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.
The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.
You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.
See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.
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.
One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.
As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.
When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.
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.
Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.
To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'
Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.
Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe
We must have courage to bet on our ideas on the calculated risk and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
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.
