Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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

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  Self Esteem, Famous Basketball, Together

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.70, Penguin

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• Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

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  Life, Motivational, Real

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.31, Penguin

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• Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

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  Self Esteem, Important, Cybernetics

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• Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

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  Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics, Right Now

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.40, Penguin

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• Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

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  Successful, Self, People

  Maltz, Maxwell Maltz, M.D. (1987). “Power Slf Img Psch”, Pocket

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• We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

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  Mean, Goal, Matter

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• Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

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  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Loving Yourself

  Maxwell Maltz (2002). “New Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.170, Penguin

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

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  Life Is, Surprise, Recognise

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

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  Mistake, Past, Giving

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Love Yourself

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• 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.

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  Business, Moving, Steps

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.84, Penguin

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• To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

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  Change, Decision, Cybernetics

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• What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

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  Opportunity, Destiny, Doors

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• Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

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  Self, Games, Names

  Maxwell Maltz, Kelli M. Gary (1983). “PRINCIPLES CRE LVG”, Pocket

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• We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

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  Self Esteem, Vices, Opinion

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.86, Penguin

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

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  Self Esteem, Keys, Behavior Change

  MAXWELL MALTZ, M.D.,F.I.C.S. (1960). “PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS”

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• The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

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  Motivational, Children, Self Esteem

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.79, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Motivational, Determination, Business

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.82, Penguin

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

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  Cybernetics, Environment, Imagine

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.28, Penguin

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• This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

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  Winning, Mind, Battle

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• The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

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  Acceptance, Self, Miracle

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• Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

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  Self, Cybernetics, Determine

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• Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.

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  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Maxwell Maltz (1960). “Psychocybernetics”

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• Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

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  Cybernetics, Determine, Psycho Cybernetics

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• I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green.

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  Thinking, Mind, Green

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.102, Penguin

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