Confidence is a gift only you can give to yourself.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.