Maxwell maltz

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

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

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

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.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

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

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.