Maxwell Maltz

“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.”

“Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.”

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

“You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you”

“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automati...”

“Times will change for the better when you change.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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-brake on.”

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

“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...”

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

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

“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.”