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Maxwell Maltz
American
Scientist
About the author
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,
American
Scientist
#Trouble
#Needs
#Feelings
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,
American
Scientist
#Success
#Will
#Today
#Defeat
#Taste
#Tomorrow
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Life
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#World
#May
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Mistakes
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Will
#Sun
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Life
#Ideas
#Risk
#Act
#Living
#Happiness
#Courage
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Life
#Problems
#Goals
#Satisfaction
#Environment
#Happiness
#Obstacles
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Old
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Habit
#Act
#Change
#Decision
#Behavior
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,
American
Scientist
#Self
#Change
#Key
#Personality
#Behavior
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Life
#Self
#Driving
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Self
#Name
Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Will
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Will
#Friends
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Security
#Man
#Balance
#Sense
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,
American
Scientist
#Successful
#Man
#Failure
#Ideas
#Risk
#Act
#Difference
#Courage
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Self
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Result
#Actions
#Beliefs
#Personality
#Feelings
#Psychology
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,
American
Scientist
#Will
#Opportunity
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Maxwell Maltz,
American
Scientist
#Self
#Accomplishment
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,
American
Scientist
#Will
#Imagination
#Act
#Goal