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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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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
Author
Physician
Playwright
Psychologist
Surgeon
Writer
New York City
New York
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Habits
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Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
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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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Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
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Live in the present. The past is gone the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.
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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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Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'
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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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