You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline
Knock the "t" off the "can't." ~Samuel Johnson
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ~Sophia Loren
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. ~Christian Bovee
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. ~Edgar Allan Poe
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. ~Henrik Ibsen
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never dull your shine for somebody else. ~Tyra Banks, America's Next Top Model, "The Girl Who Is Afraid of Heights," original airdate 17 October 2007
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604
Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome. ~Irisa Hail
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ~Ellen Goodman
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. ~Anaïs Nin
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. ~William Hazlitt
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. ~Ram Dass
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne
It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.
~Paula Cole, "Me," This Fire
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~Andrew Carnegie
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it. ~From Cool Runnings
I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion. ~Astrid Alauda
Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra
If I am not for myself, who will be? ~Pirke Avoth
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. ~Charles Dickens
Self-love seems so often unrequited. ~Anthony Powell
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. ~Henry David Thoreau
There are offences given and offences not given but taken. ~Izaak Walton
Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. ~John Powell
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