Quotes by American Authors - Page 56

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Nikki Giovanni
I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Madonna
Be always sure you're right then go ahead.
Davy Crockett
In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions but I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that with God's help I shall make them and make them right.
General George S. Patton
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
Self-command is the main elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
Measure yourself by your best moments not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
Robert Johnson
A good sweat with the blood pounding through my body makes me feel alive revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.
Arthur Dobrin
He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.
Floyd V. Filson
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post
Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.
Raquel Welch
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat others with respect kindness and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.
Nathaniel Branden
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us.
Arlene Raven
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
Kathleen Turner
I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one why bother to be humble about it?
Joan Baez
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
Wilma Rudolph
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.
Joan Rivers
You've got to take the initiative and play your game ... confidence makes the difference.
Chris Evert
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.
Christian Bovee
I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.
Mary Garden
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Bovee
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
William Wrigley
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy
We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Joan Rivers
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Margaret Witter Fuller
Don't buy the garbage that you're over the hill at fifty. This country makes such a big thing about age particularly if you're a woman. What I think is relevant is your experience what you have to offer. I hope people will recognize that and keep going.
Molly Yard
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
Raquel Welch
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience almost beyond our capacity at times but something to be carried high.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.
May Sarton
There are no old people nowadays they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.
Mary Pettibone Poole
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.
Flannery O'Connor
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.
Shirley Lord
Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown
Maturity is coming to terms with that other part of yourself.
Dr. Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden
Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Susan B. Anthony
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
Gladys Taber
The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Susan B. Anthony
Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.
Ethel Percy Andrus
Believe that you can whip the enemy and you have won half the battle.
General J. E. B. Stuart
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.
Roy L. Smith
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith