Maxwell Maltz

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

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.

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

Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

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

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

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

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 __icture_ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of __ill,_ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

If you make friends with yourself, you__l never be alone.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.