Top 100 Maxwell Maltz Quotes
#1. 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 of God and therefore a thing of value.
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#2. You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
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#4. The "Success-type" personality is composed of: S-ense of direction U - nderstanding C-ourage C-harity E-steem S-elf-Confidence S-elf-Acceptance.
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#5. 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 lives of others. This is your responsibility.
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#7. To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
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#8. If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.
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#9. You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
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#10. The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.
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#11. Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
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#13. No man is hurt but by himself," said Diogenes.
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#14. If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet.
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#15. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.
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#16. Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.
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#17. When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.
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#18. We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
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#19. Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.
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#20. Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
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#21. Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.
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#22. If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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#23. Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.
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#24. Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
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#25. Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.
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#26. Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.
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#27. Nothing can work me damage except myself," said St. Bernard.
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#28. Do your worrying before you place your bet, not after the wheel stops turning.
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#29. 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.
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#30. A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
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#31. Experimental and clinical psychologists have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.
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#32. The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.
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#33. You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
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#34. Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'
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#36. Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.
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#37. Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
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#38. The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.
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#39. Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe
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#40. The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.
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#41. To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'
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#42. 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 that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
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#43. I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.
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#44. We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
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#45. Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the 'now' if you pay attention to what is happening now.
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#46. We age not by years but by events and our emotional reactions to them.
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#47. Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
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#48. Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.
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#50. It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.
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#51. The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.
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#52. Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
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#53. We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
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#54. Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
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#55. Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.
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#56. The lucky of successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and confident, you will act successfully.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Conscious effort inhibits and 'jams' the automatic creative mechanism.
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#60. Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.
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#61. Adopt the motto - It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
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#62. Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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#63. When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.
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#64. Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.
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#65. Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.
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#66. Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.
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#67. It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
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#68. One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.
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#69. 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.
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#71. An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.
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#72. True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.
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#73. If you can remember, worry, or tie your shoe, you can succeed with Psycho-Cybernetics!
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#74. Every day you must try to make yourself grow. This you can do.
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#75. Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
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#76. The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
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#77. 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.
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#78. Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.
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#79. See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.
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#80. Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.
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#81. Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
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#82. Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward.
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#83. Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
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#84. Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
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#85. Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
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#86. In an interview in 1992, Leary stated, "It is a genetic imperative to explore the brain. Because it's there. If you're carrying around in your head 100 billion mainframe computers, you just have to get in there and learn how to operate them.
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#87. People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to ... to work for and hope for.
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#88. You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.
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#89. 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 by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
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#91. Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.
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#92. This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
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#93. Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.
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#95. Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for success" by his Creator. Every human being has access to a power greater than himself.
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#96. Times will change for the better when you change.
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#97. Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.
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#98. As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.
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#99. The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
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#100. Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.
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