Maxwell Maltz Quotes

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

Old habits die hard, and if you're not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you're trying to become.

Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

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.

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.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

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

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

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

If you label someone lazy or a liar, he'll feel like that for life. Worse, guys lose motivation to change when we feel like your perception of us is set in stone.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.