Maxwell Maltz Quotes

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Forward to the peaceful tranquility of the status quo.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.

Nobody wants to stand behind a parked car. You got to always follow somebody who keeps it moving.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

I think that the world that was behind us has gone ahead. We need to run a lot to match that level. So we do not need to calculate. We just need to give it all in. And I have given myself in completely. I've been successful is pulling my entire government in. I believe that India is also committed to moving forward.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.