MAXWELL MALTZ, Psychocybernetics
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
MAXWELL MALTZ, attributed, 1001 Pearls of Wisdom to Build Confidence: Advice and Guidance to Inspire
Resentment is also a way of making us feel important. Many people get a perverse satisfaction from feeling "wronged." The victim of injustice, the one who has been unfairly treated, is morally superior to those who caused the injustice.
MAXWELL MALTZ, Psycho-Cybernetics
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
MAXWELL MALTZ, attributed, 1001 Pearls of Wisdom to Build Confidence: Advice and Guidance to Inspire
Resentment is an attempt to make our own failure palatable by explaining it in terms of unfair treatment, injustice. But, as a salve for failure, resentment is a cure that is worse than the disease.
MAXWELL MALTZ, Psycho-Cybernetics
Resentment is a mental resistance to, a non-acceptance of, something which has already happened ... an emotional rehashing, or re-fighting of some event in the past. You cannot win, because you are attempting to do the impossible--change the past.
MAXWELL MALTZ, Psycho-Cybernetics
For real self-esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won, the mark you've made, but from an appreciation of yourself for what you are.
MAXWELL MALTZ, attributed, 1001 Pearls of Wisdom to Build Confidence: Advice and Guidance to Inspire
