About Maxwell Maltz: Maxwell Maltz is considered the forerunner of the now popular self-help books.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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 automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not becaus...
It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings ...
You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
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 today.
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
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.
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
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.
Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
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.
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.
Times will change for the better when you change.
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.
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
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. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yours...
