American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz – [Self-love]
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
Maxwell Maltz – [Imagination]
Close scrutiny will show that most ''crisis situations'' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Maxwell Maltz – [Growth]
For imagination sets the goal ''picture'' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ''will,'' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell Maltz – [Imagination]
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Maxwell Maltz – [Fear]
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown — but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present — next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.
Maxwell Maltz – [Present]
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Maxwell Maltz – [Self-esteem]
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
Maxwell Maltz – [Security]
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.
Maxwell Maltz – [Action]
One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
Maxwell Maltz – [Motivation]
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become
Maxwell Maltz – [Self-image]
People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' — to work for and hope for.
Maxwell Maltz – [Goals]
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
Maxwell Maltz – [Self-image]
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 – [Mistakes]
Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm… even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.
Maxwell Maltz – [Courage]
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
Maxwell Maltz – [Imagination]
Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
Maxwell Maltz – [Cooperation]
The ''self-image'' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Maxwell Maltz – [Self-image]
This is where you will win the battle — in the playhouse of your mind.
Maxwell Maltz – [Mind]
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
Maxwell Maltz – [Imagination]