"A great man is always willing to be little."
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"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."
"I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none."
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
"The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear."
"Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem."
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
"Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have."
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
"I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem."
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
"All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them."
"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen."
"Fortune befriends the bold."
"Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'"
"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."
"With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities."
"Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth."
"Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old."
"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."