Maxwell Maltz Quotes

When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green.

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

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.

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.

Unthaw and become more natural.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

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

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.