196 Quotes by Maxwell Maltz

Your nervous system can’t tell real failure from imagined failure.

Get yourself a goal worth working for.

The important thing for you to remember is that it does not matter in the least how you got the idea or where it came from. You may never have met a professional hypnotist. You may never have been formally hypnotized. But if you have accepted an idea – from yourself, your teachers, your parents, friends, advertisements, from any other source – and further, if you are firmly convinced that idea is true, it has the same power over you as the hypnotist’s words have over the hypnotized subject.

Adopt the motto: It doesn’t matter who’s right, but what’s right.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life – to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

Failure feelings – fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence – do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their “superior” self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have “experienced” rather than what we have learned intellectually.