Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was. (Quote by - May Sarton)

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. (Quote by - Johnny Unitas)

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy, I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success. (Quote by - Jinger Heath)

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. (Quote by - Stephen Spender)

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. (Quote by - Judith Martin)

The more important the title, the more self-important the person, the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle, the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization. (Quote by - Jane O'Reilly)

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Be always sure you're right, then go ahead. (Quote by - Davy Crockett)

Confidence is half of victory. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. (Quote by - Christian Bovee)

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. (Quote by - Florida Scott-Maxwell)

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart, and mountains will move out of your way. (Quote by - Kate Seredy)

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities. (Quote by - Alan Thicke)

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. (Quote by - Madeleine L'Engle)

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power. (Quote by - Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. (Quote by - Robert Johnson)

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. (Quote by - Lord Melbourne)

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. (Quote by - Bruce Barton)