Maxwell Maltz Self Quotations

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.

We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well.

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

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

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.

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

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.

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.

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