196 Quotes by Maxwell Maltz

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

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

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

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.

Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember.

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

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.

When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.