SELF-CONFIDENCE

Related Subjects: Calm, Confidence, Courage, Superiority

1. They are most deceived that trust the most in themselves.—QUEEN ELIZABETH
   

2. Self-trust is the essence of heroism.—EMERSON, Essays
   

3. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.—EMERSON, Essays
   

4. Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.—ALDOUS HUXLEY, Proper Studies
   

5. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

6. The promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms; and to confide on one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.—MICHELANGELO
   

7. Then where is truth, if there be no self-trust?—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
   

8. It is easy—terribly easy—to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.—BERNARD SHAW, Candida
   

9. He lean'd not on his fathers, but himself.—TENNYSON, Aylmer's Field
   

10. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.—THOREAU, Walden