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Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

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 City
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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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Times will change for the better when you change.
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Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
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Ignore past failures and forge ahead.
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Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.
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The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.
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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.
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Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age' they contribute to it.
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Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
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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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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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