It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.

—W.C. Fields

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

—Sonya Friedman

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

 —Anthony Powell

Our doubts are traitors, and often make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

— William Shakespeare

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

 —Mignon McLaughlin

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.

 —Henry Ford

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

—Sally Kempton

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, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

 —Earl Grey Stevens

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

 —Richard L. Evans

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

 —Paul Tillich

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

 —Peter T. Mcintyre

I am convinced that all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

 —Buckminster Fuller

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

 —Max L. Forman

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

 —Epicurus

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

—André Dubus

We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

 —Olin Miller

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself — your strengths and your limitations — in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

 —Judith M. Bardwick