Maxwell Maltz Self Esteem Quotations

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

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.