Quotes from Maxwell Maltz

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.

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.

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.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

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.

The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much

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.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

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

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.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

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.

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.

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

We must have the 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.

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.