Maxwell Maltz

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

Maxwell Maltz

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.

Maxwell Maltz

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

Maxwell Maltz

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.

Maxwell Maltz

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Maxwell Maltz

You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Maxwell Maltz

A step in the wrong direction is better than staying ‘on the spot’ all our life. Once you’re moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you’re ‘standing still.’

Maxwell Maltz