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.

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Maxwell Maltz

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

— Maxwell Maltz

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Maxwell Maltz

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Maxwell Maltz