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Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Maxwell Maltz
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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
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Physician
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New York
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When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.
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Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
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Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.
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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.
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Times will change for the better when you change.
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Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.
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Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward.
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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.
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Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
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A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription: Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Decide what you want out of a situation. Always have something ahead of you to “look forward to” — to work for and hope for.
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