Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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

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• You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

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  Topics in Life, Work

• You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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• Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

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

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  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Friends, Will

• 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.

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Maxwell Maltz (22)

Birth:	10th March, 1899
Death:	7th April, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Surgeon

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