Maxwell Maltz quotes

" Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. " # self-esteem # Love # Life and Living

" To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. " # Habit # Freedom # Power

" 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. " # Goals # Freedom # Power

" Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become " # Self-image

" 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. " # Mind # Dreams # Power

" 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 yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing. " # Opportunity # Love # Life and Living

" Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself. " # Courage # Crisis # Opportunity

" 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. " # Imagination # Failure # Goals

" Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act. " # Action # Courage # Risk

" You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. " # Adversity # Twentieth Century # Opportunity