196 Quotes by Maxwell Maltz

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

When you believe you can... you can!

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

One’s capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one’s capacity for happiness.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

To really ‘live,’ that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to ‘you.’