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You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Maxwell Maltz

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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
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One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.
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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
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Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
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We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
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This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.
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Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally engineered for success by his Creator. Every human being has access to a power greater than himself.
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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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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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