Quotes from Maxwell Maltz

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

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.

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.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

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

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

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, "standing still".

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

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.

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

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.

When you believe you can... you can!

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

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.

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.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled "crisis situations" are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

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.

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.