"I await to see what you become now that you are your own master."

She ran a thumb along his cheek.

"And if there are times you doubt yourself, remember today and now, how in this very moment you are without chains or fear, without worry and doubt. You are going to need it, you have another mountain to climb."

Now that Maul had worked past his trauma of Palpatine, he had the mountain to surmount the reputation of his own making. Sure, the reputation was made with some of the chains Palpatine put on his mind, but it was also just Maul's personality.