Maxwell Maltz

Scientist

1889-03-10

Quotes by Maxwell Maltz

• You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

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• We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

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• Our errors, mistakes, failures, and sometimes even our humiliations, were necessary steps in the learning process. However, they were meant to be means to an end - and not an end in themselves. When they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we consciously dwell on the error, or consciously feel guilty about the error and keep berating ourselves because of it, then - unwittingly - the error or failure itself becomes the goal that is consciously held in imagination and memory.

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• Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced. It cannot be made contingent upon solving some external problem. When one problem is solved, another appears to take its place. Life is a series of problems. If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy - period! Not happy because of.

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• I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are attempting to live their lives on the deferred payment plan. They do not live, or enjoy life now, but wait for some future event or occurrence. They will be happy when they get married, when they get a better job, when they get the house paid for, when they get the children through college, when they have completed some task or won some victory. Invariably, they are disappointed.

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• Times will change for the better when you change.

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• A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal —picture' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of —will,' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

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• You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

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• We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

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• You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

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• You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

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• Our errors, mistakes, failures, and sometimes even our humiliations, were necessary steps in the learning process. However, they were meant to be means to an end - and not an end in themselves. When they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we consciously dwell on the error, or consciously feel guilty about the error and keep berating ourselves because of it, then - unwittingly - the error or failure itself becomes the goal that is consciously held in imagination and memory.

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• Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced. It cannot be made contingent upon solving some external problem. When one problem is solved, another appears to take its place. Life is a series of problems. If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy - period! Not happy because of.

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• Times will change for the better when you change.

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• I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are attempting to live their lives on the deferred payment plan. They do not live, or enjoy life now, but wait for some future event or occurrence. They will be happy when they get married, when they get a better job, when they get the house paid for, when they get the children through college, when they have completed some task or won some victory. Invariably, they are disappointed.

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• A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal —picture' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of —will,' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

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

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

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

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• Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

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