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Self Quotes by Maxwell Maltz
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child…
- Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.
- When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds…
- One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been…
- Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are…
- The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
- Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
- Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
- Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
- Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
- Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.
- Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously…
- Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
- Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
- Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster