196 Quotes by Maxwell Maltz

When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all – they are simply “passed over” and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.

I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything,” said Henry Ward Beecher.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, ‘It’s no use – I can’t do it.’

The “Success-type” personality is composed of: S-ense of direction U – nderstanding C-ourage C-harity E-steem S-elf-Confidence S-elf-Acceptance.

Do not say to yourself, ‘I am going to act this way tomorrow.’ Just say to yourself – ‘I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW – for 30 minutes – today.’

Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don’t worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the ‘now’ if you pay attention to what is happening now.

The individual who is actively engaged in a struggle, or in striving toward an important goal, does not come up with pessimistic philosophies concerning the meaninglessness or the futility of life.

The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination – continually criticizing himself for past mistakes – continually condemning himself for past sins.