Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.
The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.
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.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
Happiness is the art of relaxation.
I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green.
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.
Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
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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