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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.

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
Playwright
Psychologist
Surgeon
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New York City
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Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
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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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Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.
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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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Ignore past failures and forge ahead.
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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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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.
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Times will change for the better when you change.
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Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.
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You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
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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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You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
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True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.
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