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1 " You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you "
― Maxwell Maltz
2 " Times will change for the better when you change. "
3 " I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are attempting to live their lives on the deferred payment plan. They do not live, or enjoy life now, but wait for some future event or occurrence. They will be happy when they get married, when they get a better job, when they get the house paid for, when they get the children through college, when they have completed some task or won some victory. Invariably, they are disappointed. "
― Maxwell Maltz , Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
4 " We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. "
5 " You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. "
6 " Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. "
7 " 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. "
8 " If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone. "
9 " The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth. "
10 " What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing. "
11 " If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone. "
12 " Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe "
13 " Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. "
14 " If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. "
15 " You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. "
16 " Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. "
17 " No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. —William E. Gladstone "
18 " I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer "
19 " Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience. "
20 " It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist. "
