You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”. — Maxwell Maltz Action Copy Share Image
Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual. — Maxwell Maltz Behavior Copy Share Image
“To the degree that we deny the gift of life, we embrace death.” — Maxwell Maltz Death Copy Share Image
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on. — Maxwell Maltz Driving Copy Share Image
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one… — Maxwell Maltz Calculated risk Copy Share Image
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will,… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or… — Maxwell Maltz Effort Copy Share Image
To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit… — Maxwell Maltz Cybernetics Copy Share Image
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk… — Maxwell Maltz Ability Copy Share Image
A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can… — Maxwell Maltz Business Copy Share Image
You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life… — Maxwell Maltz Adventure Copy Share Image
People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription:… — Maxwell Maltz Goal Copy Share Image
“He must have a burning desire to solve the problem. But after he has defined the problem sees in his imagination the… — Maxwell Maltz Burning desire Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can… — Maxwell Maltz Believer Copy Share Image
Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because… — Maxwell Maltz Attitude Copy Share Image
“You act, and feel, not according to what things are really like, but according to the image your mind holds of what… — Maxwell Maltz Mind Copy Share Image
Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five… — Maxwell Maltz Attention Copy Share Image
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. — Maxwell Maltz Alienation Copy Share Image
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. — Maxwell Maltz Behavior Copy Share Image
Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. — Maxwell Maltz Axioms Copy Share Image
Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice. — Maxwell Maltz Character Copy Share Image
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. — Maxwell Maltz Identity Copy Share Image
Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and… — Maxwell Maltz Ability Copy Share Image
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if… — Maxwell Maltz Calculated risk Copy Share Image
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the… — Maxwell Maltz Behavior Copy Share Image
See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
