Maxwell Maltz Quotations

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.

Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward.

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

Why not imagine yourself successful?

Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you remember some scene out of the past, or worry about the future. Acting out new action patterns is no more difficult than deciding, then following through on tying your shoes in a new and different manner each morning, instead of continuing to tie them in your old habitual way, without thought or decision.

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.

Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.