(38 quotes found)
“We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.”
Maxwell Maltz
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
“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. Accept it, now!”
“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.”
“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.”
“Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become”
“Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent”
“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.”
“We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.”
“Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.”
