Maxwell Maltz Quotes

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

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

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

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

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

I'm happy with the man I'm becoming.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

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.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

I mean, proud of myself, I always say that everything that I do is a work in progress.

I don't want to change anything about myself.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.