Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again – your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.

— Maxwell Maltz

Maxwell Maltz Quotes

Unthaw and become more natural.

— 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

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

— Maxwell Maltz

Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.

— Maxwell Maltz

See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.

— Maxwell Maltz

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

— Maxwell Maltz

Do your worrying before you place your bet, not after the wheel stops turning.

— 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

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

— Maxwell Maltz

Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don’t worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the ‘now’ if you pay attention to what is happening now.

— 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

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.

— Maxwell Maltz

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

— Maxwell Maltz

Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

— Maxwell Maltz

Failure feelings – fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence – do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.

— 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

Why not imagine yourself successful?

— Maxwell Maltz

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

— Maxwell Maltz

Admit your mistakes but don’t cry over them. Correct them and go forward.

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Maxwell Maltz
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