Self Quotes - Page 10

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Stephen Spender

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.

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.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.

Floyd V. Filson

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.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Honoré de Balzac

Measure yourself by your best moments not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.

Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

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

Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.

Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game ... confidence makes the difference.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

If there be a faith that can move mountains it is faith in one's own power.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Cicero

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape then you can do anything or practically anything.

Sir John Gielgud

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

They conquer who believe they can.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

Kathleen Turner

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

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Frances Ridley Havergal

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

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

Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

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.

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!

Margaret Witter Fuller

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Youth is not a time of life it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt your fear your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

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.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

William Wrigley

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.

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.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot

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

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Elizabeth Arden

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot

Maturity is coming to terms with that other part of yourself.

Dr. Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

It is often the case with finer natures that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Madeleine L'Engle

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

Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.

We are always the same age inside.

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