Maxwell Maltz Quotes

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

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

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

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.

Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, succeed, achieve exactly in accord with your own imagination.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

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

It is more important to find out the truth about ourselves than to find out the truth about any other subject.

You are not your mistakes. They are what you did, not who you are.

If you are going to live with yourself, and be yourself, you might as well learn to like yourself.

If we work in our imagination as we do in real life, our imaginations also work for us.

When we change our minds, we change our lives.

Take time daily for relaxing, refreshing, growing and stretching the inner self.

The fact that you can become a different person and live a fuller life is not a question. The only question is whether you will do it.

Forgiveness is a scalpel which removes the scars from the past.

Within you, there is a Real Self, waiting to be released. The greatest discovery of your generation is that you can change your life by changing your attitude of mind.

We act, or fail to act, not because of will as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

The man without imagination has no wings.

Self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior.

If you make a mistake, correct it, learn from it, and forget it. Don't carry it forward as emotional baggage.

You will see what you want to see, and you will hear what you want to hear.

A goal is a dream with action. Without action, dreams are just dreams.

The body cannot tell the difference between an experience that is real and one that is vividly imagined.

We are constantly creating ourselves. We can change our self-image at will, and that change will reorganize our personality.

Try the new. There is no improvement without change.

Crisis can be a wonderful opportunity to act creatively rather than to fall apart.

Do not take yourself too seriously. Take your work seriously, but yourself not at all.

When we believe we can, we marshal forces, talents, and abilities which would otherwise lie dormant.

If the picture we hold in our minds is one of failure, then we will indeed fail. If we picture success, we move toward success.