Maxwell Maltz Quotes

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

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

When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.

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

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.

There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.

One's perception of themselves has a much bigger role than has been acknowledged to determine who succeeds and who does not.

The biggest thing you must remember is the mindset you have - what were the initial things you said to yourself as a young kid? Everything you said, that's who you are.

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

We are what we believe we are.

I wasn't always this introverted.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.