Believing in yourself is one of the first steps to success.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.Author Dr Sammy D.James
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.
~William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Success comes in cans, not cant's.Author Unknown
Put your future in good hands your own.Author Unknown
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan
I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall
I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk. ~Edward J. McGrath, Jr., "An Exceptional View of Life.believe in yourself,no matter what you choose keep a winner attitude.Dr.Sammy D.James
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.Dr Sammy D.James
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. Peter T. Mcintyre
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. Michael Jordan
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.Edmund Hillary
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. Author Unknown
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. Michel de Montaigne
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. Sa'Di
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970
When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.Les Brown
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
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'sGirl Who Is Afraid of Heights," original
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 Avot
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
hat 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
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While.It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ~Epicurus
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. ~Nicholas de Chamfort
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there. ~Henry Miller, Sexus
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ~Jean Sibelius
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.Author Dr.Sammy D.James
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. ~Nicholai Velimirovic
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. ~Thomas à Kempis
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~André Dubus
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ~Francis Bacon
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. ~Author Unknown
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ~Olin Miller
As soon
Seek roses in December, ice in June;
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;
Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false, before
You trust in critics.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. ~Lou Holtz and John Heisler, The Fighting Spirit
[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921
Mediocrity is a hand-rail. ~Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Mes pensées
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." ~Author Unknown
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. ~E.F. Schumacher
Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. ~Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
~Karen Ravn
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles," 1992 (commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela, 1994 inauguration speech)
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. Gene Fowler.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal"
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ~James Matthew Barrie
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. ~Boris Pasternak
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people. ~Tom Masson
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ~Shirley MacLaine
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. ~George Gissing
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ~John Morley
There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. Shakti Gawain
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ~Samuel Johnson
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. Author Unknown
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774
We are betrayed by what is false within. ~George Meredith
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. ~Eric Hoffer
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. Julius Charles Hare
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~André Berthiaume, Contretemps
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~Honoré de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne," La Maison Nucingen, 1838
He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~Irene C. Kassorla
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide
There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ~Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. ~Antonio Machado
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Charles R. Brown
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. Jane Haddam
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline...Abraham J. Heschel
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.Dr Sammy D.James
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.Joan Didion
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~Frederick Douglass
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. Axel Munthe
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ~Joan Didion
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ~Marcus Aurelius
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.Clint Eastwood
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it. Whitney Griswold
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.Max Nordau
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ~Theodore Parker
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ~George Bernard Shaw
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ~John Herschel
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J.H. Boetcker
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ~Michel de Montaigne
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. Joe Clark
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. ~Peter McArthur
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. Laurence Sterne
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. ~Edward Koch
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. ~Gail Sheehy
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected that is essential. Dr Sammy D.James
Self-respect knows no considerations.Mahatma Gandhi
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Robert Byrne
The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition. ~Jeannette Rankin
Respect yourself and others will respect you.Confucius
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ~Cardinal De Retz
Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals. ~Author Unknown
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. Author.Dr Sammy D.James
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. ~Maya Angelou
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.Dale E. Turner. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. ~Abraham Lincoln
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare
Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. Alan Simpson
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Kerin De la Cruz
Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.German proverb
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.Arthur Freed
Your life may be the only Bible some people read. Sammy D.James
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. ~Author Unknown
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? Kein De la Cruz
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ~William Safire
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~Author Unknown
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. ~Mark Twain, Huck Finn
Character is higher than intellect.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. Abraham Lincoln
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.Dr Sammy D.James
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~Henry Ford
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ~Mark Twain, "What Is Man?", 1906
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. ~John Lubbock
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.James D. Miles
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. Matthew Henry
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~Thomas Paine
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. ~Isaac Asimov
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ~Charles Evans Hughes
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverb
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.Samuel Butler.
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.Mario Cuomo
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.Nelsen,my brother
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
I am,
indeed,
a king,
because I know how
to rule myself.
Pietro Aretino, 10 May 1537
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. ~Michel de Montaigne
Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.Davy Crockett
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. ~Henry David Thoreau
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it. ~Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met. Dwight Lyman Moody
Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. ~Bert Murray
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ~Will Rogers
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. Indira Gandhi
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
~Ogden Nash
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.Thomas Jefferson
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.Chester W. Nimitz
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author Unknown
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. Japanese Proverb
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. ~Samuel Richardson
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point,we have to take sides.
I would rather be right than President. Henry Clay, speech, 1850
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. ~Samuel P. Ginder
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1809
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ~Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
Goodness is beauty in the best estate. Christopher Marlowe
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws. ~Johann Sigurjonsson
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.Thomas Hardy
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. ~Frank Moore Colby
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.D Sammy D.James
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. William Arnot
Conscience warns us before it reproaches us. Dr Sammy D.James
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.Pablo Casals
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? Socrates
Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. ~Lydia M. Child
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.Will Durant
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.Abraham Lincoln
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?Mark Twain
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. Nadege,my sister
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.Bernard,my brother.
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. my brother Lolo
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Mahatma Gandhi
hough of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.Martin H. Fischer
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers
Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.Suzanne Necker
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. ~Ambrose Bierce
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. Frederick W. Faber
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. ~Georges Courteline, La philosophie de Georges Courteline, 1917
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. Martin Luther
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ~Oscar Wilde
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ~Somerset Maugham
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. ~Michael Iapoce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. Abraham Lincoln
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. ~Mary Renault
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. Henry David Thoreau
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. You, compiled by H. Jackson Browne
The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ~George Washington
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. ~William Shakespeare
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. ~Arnold H. Glasow
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~A.A. Hodge
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. Victor Hugo
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. ~Author Unknown
Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself. Corri Alius
I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. ~Eleanora Duse, Le Gaulois, 1922
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. Mark Twain
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. What I Believe, Forum and Century, 1930
A healthy mind has an easy breath.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. B.C. Forbes
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha
The time is always right to do what is right.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.Mark Twain
Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman.
Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. Henry Taylor
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Thomas Paine
Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.Léon Blum
I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.DrSammy D James
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. Dr Sammy D.James
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. Doug Larson
Take care that no one hates you justly.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. Mark Twain
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. William Lloyd Garrison
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.Harriet Woods
Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.
Have a very good reason for everything you do. ~Laurence Olivier
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.Les Brown
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Arnold H. Glasow
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. J.M. Power
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.C.D. Jackson
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.Author Unknown
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. Dr Sammy D.James
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Woody Allen
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.Author Unknown
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance:
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. Anthony J.
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.Charles C. Noble
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D'Angelo
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.Wendy Wasserstein
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.Art Linkletter
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.Ralph Marston
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop .
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.Confucius
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.Steven D. Woodhull
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.Dr. Seuss
Put your future in good hands - your own.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.Edmund Hillary
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. Michelangelo.
The man who has done his best has done everything. Charles M. Schwab
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. Charles D. Gill
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan
The important thing is not to stop questioning.Albert Einstein
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. Fred Dehner
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso
Stop being your own pest.
Start doing your own best.
Danzae Pace
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. Author Unknown
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. Henry Ford
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. Allen H. Neuharth
In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Success comes in cans, not cant's. Author Unknown
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. Michael Jordan
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Alva Edis
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. Max L. Forman
Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs.Dan Zadra
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. Dr Sammy D.James,I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.Larry Bird
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.Author Unknown
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. Ann Landers
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
Dr Sammy D.James
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. Dr Sammy D.James
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't find fault. Find a remedy.Henry Ford
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. Joe Cordare
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. Buddha. How to Believe in Yourself.It is the decisions you make, when you have no time to make them, that define who you are.
Believing in yourself is one of the first steps to success. If you don't have confidence in yourself, it will be difficult to succeed in anything.
Learn how to make decisions based on your experiences that you believe.If you don't have your own thinking, you can never be successful.
Set goals. When you set goals, you have control.
Recognize when you achieve your goals, so that you will build your confidence.
Consider reasons you fail. Everyone fails to achieve some goal, but if you learn from the failure, you will be more likely to succeed.
Use realistic expectations to judge your success. Do not expect to run a four minute mile, until you have trained and conditioned for running.
Listen to critics, but never let them convince you that you are less than you are. Some critics will tear you down to make themselves look bigger and better, while others will offer critical advice to help you make changes to improve yourself.
Give your time and energy to others. When you do this, you will get positive feed back and get respect from others. These are building blocks for self respect, which is essential to believing in yourself.
Believe in yourself, you will do your best.
Don't let people knock you down. If anything, let them get knocked down to prove you can be better.
If someone says you can't do anything, dont believe them, because it could lead to a critical matter.
Try to get a pack of toy soldiers and a bb gun and imagine your bad points are the toys and shoot as many down as possible. This can help your self esteem/confidence.
Get to know yourself before you believe in yourself. Know what works best for you.
Also get to know your personality that is the most important thing to do if you want to believe in yourself
How to Feel Confident
You might have already read and learned how to be confident, but what if you still don't feel all that confident? Sometimes it takes your emotions a little bit of time to catch up with your thoughts, but here's how to help the process along.
Emotions are involuntary. Hence feeling diffident is autonomic activity. But it can be overcome
Take a public speaking course. You might dread getting up in front of people, but there's no better way to jump start your confidence than by assuring yourself that you've got something to say, and people are listening.
Change up your look. Whether you're male or female, getting a new outfit and haircut can make you feel fresh, cool and confident.
Pretend that you are already confident. If you've ever wanted to be an actor, use that motivation now. You may know you're capable and competent, yet you may feel rather insecure, but by pretending that you're already confident, you might be able to convince yourself. Ask yourself, what would my confident alter ego do? How would they walk? How would they speak? Practice!
Find some affirmations that will help you and repeat them often to yourself.
Affirmations are very powerful and need to be spoken as though they have already happened. Say to yourself, "I am a very confident person, I can do anything if I put my mind to it.
Visualize yourself being congratulated on something you dream to achieve. Imagine the person shaking your hand and saying, "Well done." Hold a picture of you being successful, and chances are, it'll eventually become a reality.
Every evening just before you go to bed, think to yourself at least ten times, "I am a confident person." This leaves a positive frame of mind inside of you and will make you feel more confident the next day.
Smile and relax; there's nothing that needs to be worried about.
Don't feel that your audience is expecting a lot from you.
Assume yourself equal to everyone in the audience.
Volunteer important works in your organization, this is how you can earn people's respect and become more confident.
ALWAYS be honest and believe in yourself. If you don't no one else will.
Don't underestimate yourself just because you're younger or smaller.
If anybody puts you down or makes fun of you, think it through and how silly the comment is. Make it feel like it's a joke and you won't take the comment seriously.
Not feeling confident is sometimes associated with a petty intellectual paradigm that stimulates our autonomic nervous activity which in turn affects our feelings of self-worth. This paradigm can be overcome and you can blossom from within by studying and re-evaluating yourself.