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

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

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have read more

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

Confidence awakens confidence.

Confidence awakens confidence.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's read more

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, read more

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.