 | "There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me'."
- Andre Gide
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| "Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
- Arnold Bennett
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| "Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."
- Arnold Palmer
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| "Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
- Baltasar Gracian
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| "Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
- Dorothy Bernard
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| "The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."
- Hasidic Saying
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| "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
- Mark Twain
, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887. |
| "Believe in yourself ! Have faith in your abilities ! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy"
- Norman Vincent Peale
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| "It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever."
- Philip Adams
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| "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
- Rosalynn Carter
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