Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ...
by Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Related topics: Positive Motivational Self-Confidence

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu

I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking

Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie