Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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.

You must have courage to bet on your ideals, to take calculated risk, and act.. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success..

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

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

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..

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..

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone..

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

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

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.