Maxwell Maltz quotes

Maxwell Maltz was an American cosmetic surgeon and author, best known for his influential self-help book "Psycho-Cybernetics." His work explored the connection between self-image, personal development, and success. He helped popularize the idea that changing one's self-perception can lead to significant positive life changes. Here are 87 of his quotes:

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. (Maxwell Maltz)
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. View quote
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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. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone. View quote
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You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. View quote
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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. View quote
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The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. View quote
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A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment. View quote
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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. View quote
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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. View quote
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Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. (Maxwell Maltz)
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. View quote
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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. View quote
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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. View quote
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Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself. View quote
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You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. View quote
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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. View quote
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Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. (Maxwell Maltz)
Times will change for the better when you change. View quote
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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real' experience. View quote
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Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. View quote
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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. View quote
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Maxwell Maltz

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Occupation: American Surgeon
Born: March 10, 1889
Died: April 7, 1975
Quotes count: 87
Wikipedia: Maxwell Maltz

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