There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more...

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time. If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.