As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

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

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

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

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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.