Maxwell Maltz Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

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

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

Times will change for the better when you change.

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

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

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

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

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

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

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-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

Life is a series of problems.

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.