The Best Maxwell Maltz quotes

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other. — Maxwell Maltz

Happiness is the art of relaxation. — Maxwell Maltz

Happiness isn’t something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon. — Maxwell Maltz

One’s capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one’s capacity for happiness. — Maxwell Maltz

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time. — Maxwell Maltz

Why not imagine yourself successful? — Maxwell Maltz

It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed…. What matters is the successful attempt. — Maxwell Maltz

As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it’s equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon. — 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

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self–esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark. — Maxwell Maltz

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

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy. — 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

The lucky of successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and confident, you will act successfully. — Maxwell Maltz

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

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. — Maxwell Maltz

When you believe you can… you can! — Maxwell Maltz

You can always find the sun within Yourself if You will only search. — Maxwell Maltz

Times will change for the better when you change. — Maxwell Maltz

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. — Maxwell Maltz

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

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves. — 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. — Maxwell Maltz

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. this power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. — Maxwell Maltz

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us. — Maxwell Maltz

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

When you’re not goal–striving, not looking forward, you’re not really living. — Maxwell Maltz

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. — Maxwell Maltz

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

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of ‘old age’; they contribute to it. — Maxwell Maltz

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal. — Maxwell Maltz

Every day you must try to make your own self–image grow; this you can do. — Maxwell Maltz

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern. — Maxwell Maltz

To really ‘live,’ that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self–image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to ‘you.’ — Maxwell Maltz

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. — Maxwell Maltz

In finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God. — Maxwell Maltz

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. — Maxwell Maltz

In expecting to grow ‘old’ at a given age we may unconsciously set up a negative goal image for our Creative Mechanism to accomplish. — Maxwell Maltz

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

Self–image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. — Maxwell Maltz